If you are a bodybuilder, biohacker, weight-loss enthusiast or looksmaxxer travelling with peptides then you might want do some research.
What is perfectly legal in your own country could get you into trouble at your destination.
Travellers carrying or personally using non-prescribed products could face medical bills, customs action and criminal penalties abroad, new research shows.Carrying research peptides across international borders could result in having products confiscated, related travel-insurance claims rejected and, in serious cases, criminal prosecution, Licensed Peptides reports.
It says Dr Samuel Sarmiento, a physician and medical content reviewer for Licensed Peptides, reports that travellers may wrongly assume that being able to purchase a peptide online means it can be legally carried abroad or will be covered by travel insurance.
Buying or carrying a research peptide would not necessarily void an entire travel-insurance policy but a claim connected to someone carrying or personally using a non-prescribed or unapproved product could be investigated and potentially rejected under the policy’s drug-use, illegal-activity, experimental-treatment or pre-existing-condition exclusions.
The traveller could then face two separate problems: action from customs authorities and an insurer refusing to pay the resulting costs.
Buying or carrying a research peptide would not necessarily void an entire travel-insurance policy but a claim connected to someone carrying or personally using a non-prescribed or unapproved product could be investigated and potentially rejected under the policy’s drug-use, illegal-activity, experimental-treatment or pre-existing-condition exclusions.
The traveller could then face two separate problems: action from customs authorities and an insurer refusing to pay the resulting costs.
Licensed Peptides says it supplies "research materials strictly for laboratory use. Its products are not approved for human consumption or therapeutic use".
Dr Sarmiento says anyone who personally uses a product carrying that label could find it particularly difficult to argue that it was a normal prescribed medication.
“A ‘research use only’ label is not a prescription, medical authorisation or guarantee of human safety.
If the product explicitly states that it is not intended for human consumption, but someone decides to inject or consume it, a travel insurer may examine whether the resulting medical event falls within one or more exclusions.
Buyer beware. Traveller be aware.
Dr Sarmiento says anyone who personally uses a product carrying that label could find it particularly difficult to argue that it was a normal prescribed medication.
“A ‘research use only’ label is not a prescription, medical authorisation or guarantee of human safety.
If the product explicitly states that it is not intended for human consumption, but someone decides to inject or consume it, a travel insurer may examine whether the resulting medical event falls within one or more exclusions.
Buyer beware. Traveller be aware.
* Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration has issued a specific warning about importing unapproved peptide products. The Australian regulator says products imported unlawfully may be seized and destroyed, while serious cases of illegal medicine importation can result in fines or imprisonment.
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