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FDA Warning Letter · #737806

Online Generic Medicine/www.onlinegenericmedicine.com — FDA Warning Letter (September 23, 2026)

Issued September 23, 2026Status: activeCenter for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER)

In plain English

Unapproved drugs

FDA reviewed Online Generic Medicine/www.onlinegenericmedicine.com’s website and said products it sold, including semaglutide, are unapproved new drugs under federal law.

What it means for you

Unapproved drugs like these have not been reviewed by FDA for safety, quality, or effectiveness. A GLP-1 should come with a prescription and from a state-licensed pharmacy.

Drugs named:semaglutide

Primary Source

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https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/online-generic-medicinewwwonlinegenericmedicinecom-737806-09232026

Letter details

Company
Online Generic Medicine/www.onlinegenericmedicine.com
Letter number
#737806
Issue date
September 23, 2026
Subject
Unapproved New Drug/Misbranded (Internet Pharmacy)

What FDA cited

As discussed below, FDA has observed that www.onlinegenericmedicine.com introduces into interstate commerce unapproved and misbranded injectable semaglutide drug products.

Quoted verbatim from the FDA warning letter dated September 23, 2026

This warning letter advises you of significant violations identified during a U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review of your website www.onlinegenericmedicine.com. Promptly address the violations described herein without delay, including ensuring that appropriate resources are allocated to fully address the violations and prevent their recurrence. This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the violations that may exist in connection with your products or operations. It is your responsibility to ensure that you comply with all requirements of federal law, including FDA regulations. Failure to adequately address violations may result in regulatory or legal action without further notice including, without limitation, seizure and injunction.

As discussed below, FDA has observed that www.onlinegenericmedicine.com introduces into interstate commerce unapproved and misbranded injectable semaglutide drug products. There are inherent risks to consumers who purchase unapproved and misbranded drug products. Unapproved new drugs do not carry the same assurances of safety and effectiveness as those drugs subject to FDA oversight. Drugs that have circumvented regulatory safeguards may be contaminated, counterfeit, contain varying amounts of active ingredients, or contain different ingredients altogether. Furthermore, injectable drug products can pose a serious risk of harm to users because they bypass many of the body's natural defenses against toxic ingredients, toxins, or dangerous organisms that can lead to serious and life-threatening conditions such as septicemia or sepsis.

Accordingly, FDA requests that www.onlinegenericmedicine.com cease offering any unapproved and misbranded drugs for sale to U.S. consumers. This is critical to shielding the American public from harm.

Violations were identified and documented during a review of your website www.onlinegenericmedicine.com, FDA Establishment Identifier (FEI) 3048678145, on August 26, 2026, and September 2, 2026.

On your website at internet address www.onlinegenericmedicine.com, you introduce into interstate commerce misbranded and unapproved new drugs in violation of sections 301(a), 301(d), 301(k), 502(f)(1), 503(b)(1), and 505(a) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) (21 U.S.C. 331(a), 331(d), 331(k), 352(f)(1), 353(b)(1), and 355(a)).

The following are violations identified during our review. As a reminder, this is not an all-inclusive list of violations that may exist in connection with your products or operations.

Certain products offered for sale by www.onlinegenericmedicine.com are drugs within the meaning of section 201(g) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 321(g)) because they are intended for use in the diagnosis, cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease and/or because they are intended to affect the structure or function of the body. These drugs are also new drugs as defined by section 201(p) of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 321(p)), because they are not generally recognized as safe and effective for their labeled uses. With certain exceptions not applicable here, new drugs may not be legally introduced or delivered for introduction into interstate commerce without prior approval from FDA, as described in section 505(a) of the FD&C Act.

You failed to obtain approved applications pursuant to section 505 of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 355) for these products that you have introduced into interstate commerce. Accordingly, their introduction or delivery for introduction into interstate commerce violates sections 301(d) and 505(a) of the FD&C Act.

Source: U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Quoted as a verbatim excerpt for editorial commentary; no claim is made beyond what FDA itself has published. The full letter is available at https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/online-generic-medicinewwwonlinegenericmedicinecom-737806-09232026

What FDA warning letters mean

A warning letter is FDA's principal means of telling a company that the agency considers something it's doing — a marketing claim, a manufacturing practice, a labeling choice — to violate the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Companies typically have 15 working days to respond.

A warning letter is not a recall, a criminal charge, or a finding that the company has broken the law. It is the start of a regulatory conversation. FDA may issue a close-out letter once it is satisfied that the company has corrected the cited issues.

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