MORE PEPTIDE VENDOR TAKEDOWNS! Lilly has now sued 11 retatrutide sellers, and poison centers logged 862 reta exposures last quarter. Here’s what’s actually in them
Lilly has now sued 11 gray-market retatrutide sellers in total: 6 in August, including Aesthetic Envy and Striker Pharmacy, and 5 more on October 8, plus reported over 14,000 product listings to regulators. The poster cites poison centers logging 862 retatrutide exposures last quarter (a figure from the post, not independently verified). Comments are split, with some users accusing Lilly of monopolizing the gray market and calling retatrutide safe, and others reporting adverse reactions such as panic episodes triggered by elevated heart rate.
Original post by u/Zman077 in r/AppliedBioscience summarizes Eli Lilly's lawsuits against gray-market retatrutide sellers: in August it sued 6 sellers (Aesthetic Envy, Astra, Legendary Peptides, Striker Pharmacy, Texas Peptides, Lone Star Peptide), and on October 8 it sued 5 more, also stating it had reported 14,000+ product listings to regulators and that poison centers recorded 862 exposure cases last quarter. Comments were polarized: u/HeroesDontExistx, u/ABVerageJoe69 and others argued the lawsuits are Eli Lilly monopolizing the gray market and that retatrutide is "safe"; u/BerryniceBoy and others shared personal adverse reactions of elevated heart rate triggering panic. On the facts, Eli Lilly's two waves of federal lawsuits and the 14,000+ reports are accurate (✔ verified); the "862 poison center exposure cases" is a figure cited in the post, with no independent source checked.
Checked ✔ (Eli Lilly's two waves of federal lawsuits and 14,000+ reported links verified via search; the "862 exposure cases" is cited in the post and not independently verified)
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