Pause over these gaps
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) publishes checks for online pharmacies.
- No prescription. Handing over a prescription medicine requires a valid prescription under the federal rule, as of 26 September 2026.
- An approval claim that does not fit. Compounded means a pharmacy or doctor has prepared a medicine to order. Such medicines have no FDA approval; an advert saying otherwise would be false as of 26 September 2026.
- No route to a pharmacist. FDA’s online pharmacy checks include access to a licensed pharmacist for questions.
- No named pharmacy. Ask which place fills the order and where its state licence record can be found.
- No return conversation. Ask who answers a concern after the medicine arrives.
Let the price prompt more questions
Very large discounts appear among FDA’s warning signs for pharmacy sites; the price needs to be read alongside the other checks.
Check the person offering care and the pharmacy as well as the price. Ask which parts of care have been left out of the figure.
