Fake peptide alert after patient suffers torn oesophagus

A serious adverse event from an unapproved weight loss product prompted the medicines regulator to renew its warnings A new alert has been issued about counterfeit ‘retatrutide’ weight loss products, after a patient experienced “uncontrollable vomiting, resulting in a torn oesophagus” from an injectable found to contain eight times the level of semaglutide in locally