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Framework status as of publication. This is the 2026 edition of a maintained reference. It does not publish current statuses for named compounds, because a status is only true on a date, and this page is read long after it is written. What it publishes instead is the set of frameworks a status can sit in, what each one does and does not tell you, and the method for establishing a current answer from a primary source on the day you need it. A peptide does not have one legal status. It has a posit …

"Research use only" is a labelling category, not a quality grade and not a form of approval. On a peptide listing, it signals that the material is being offered for laboratory work rather than for people, and that framing carries a consequence most buyers never see: the disclosures, the dosing information, and the after-sale procedures that come with a product sold for human use are not part of what is being sold. They do not transfer to the buyer either. They simply are not there. That is the d …

Neither BPC-157 nor TB-500 is an approved human therapeutic medicine in the major regulatory jurisdictions, and that fact, rather than a printed entry, is what determines their anti-doping status. The World Anti-Doping Code's Prohibited List carries a non-approved substances category that includes substances not listed individually. Both compounds fall within the scope of that category rather than appearing as named entries, which means they are treated as prohibited at all times for athletes un …