New: An FDA decision to place 19 peptides on the unsafe list was supported by numerous documented safety concerns, former officials said. Even though demand for peptide therapies has exploded since then, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving toward allowing compounding pharmacies to produce more than a dozen injectable peptides that were banned because of potentially significant safety risks, the New York Q&A: Should you trust trending peptide injections? The peptide problem: Hype is outrunning the evidence