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Don't buy or use these products. A simple message from Health Canada about unauthorized injectable peptide and non-peptide drugs.

"Health Canada is warning consumers not to use or inject unauthorized peptides after lab testing found bacteria in products sold online," the department said in a warning released late last week. "Injecting contaminated products can cause serious infections, hospitalization, and in severe cases, life-threatening sepsis. The risk of infection is higher in people with a compromised immune system."

Get more info on the Canadian online retailers where you patients could be sourcing these problematic peptides and the bacteria found in the drugs themselves here.