RFK wants to ease restrictions on synthetic peptides

Key points

• US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr says the Trump administration wants to create a regulated marketplace for peptides. He said Americans would buy the drugs anyway, and the aim is to ensure they are safe and factories are inspected.
• The Food and Drug Administration has sent a proposal to the White House that could make it easier for pharmacies to compound certain peptides. Outside advisers had recommended loosening restrictions on six of seven peptides under review, despite staff guidance against it.
• The peptides lack approval as safe or effective, and their uses are largely unproven.