{"id":37222,"date":"2025-07-25T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37222\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:16:07","slug":"lawmakers-press-fda-to-target-knockoff-weight-loss-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/37222\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Press FDA to Target Knockoff Weight-Loss Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Dozens of lawmakers are urging US health regulators to crack down on the booming market for knockoff weight-loss drugs amid mounting concerns over their potential safety risks. <\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">On Friday, a group of more than 80 bipartisan lawmakers asked the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/3400398Z:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">US Food and Drug Administration<\/a> to stop counterfeit and copycat versions of GLP-1 drugs like Wegovy and Zepbound from flooding the market \u2014 a problem that emerged over the last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of lawmakers are urging US health regulators to crack down on the booming market for knockoff weight-loss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2605,30350,10474,97,27681,27252,30351,243,1997,2256,30349,9107,30352],"class_list":["post-37222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-drugs","tag-eli-lilly-co","tag-food-and-drug-administration","tag-health","tag-hims-hers-health-inc","tag-industries","tag-july-sarl-caen","tag-medication","tag-new-jersey","tag-north-carolina","tag-novo-nordisk-a-s-b","tag-regulation","tag-telemedicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}