Health Canada actions against unauthorized peptide vendors

Health Canada has taken seven separate public actions against sellers of unauthorized injectable peptides since 2024 — six were public advisories and/or product seizures that stopped short of a courtroom, one required a permanent court injunction. This page is a plain index of that public record, not an independent finding of ours.

The actions

Every row links directly to Health Canada's own notice, or, for Canlab Research, the government's own news release about the court record. Open it — that's the primary source, not our summary of it.

What these actions are — and aren't

Health Canada doesn't use the FDA's "warning letter" mechanism. Its public-facing tools here are the recall/advisory system — a public notice that a product is unauthorized and may pose a health risk, sometimes paired with Health Canada physically seizing the product from a store or website — and, when a company doesn't comply, an application to the courts. Six of the seven actions above ended with a public advisory, a seizure, or the seller voluntarily taking its site down after Health Canada's request, not a court order. Canlab Research is the exception: Health Canada says the company continued despite repeated prior enforcement before it sought, and was granted, a permanent injunction barring the activity outright, including via any website accessible from a Canadian IP address.

None of this is a product recall reaching a specific person who already bought something, and none of it is a criminal conviction. It's a public record that Health Canada considered these specific products or sellers unauthorized and took the action described — nothing more, nothing less.

Why this isn't part of the Register

Same reasoning as the equivalent FDA page: the Register's findings are anonymous when a product fails, because that verdict is our conclusion against a standard we wrote. This page is different in kind — it reports Health Canada's own public enforcement record, already published under each company's name. We're not naming these companies; Health Canada already did, publicly, and we're indexing that record rather than duplicating it as our own accusation.

If you're in Canada and buying from one of these sites

An action on this list doesn't tell you what's actually in a specific vial, and the absence of a Health Canada action for a given vendor doesn't mean one isn't coming, or that the vendor is otherwise clean. Health Canada's enforcement capacity is smaller than the FDA's, so treat a missing entry here as an even weaker signal than a missing FDA letter is on the US-focused version of this page. See vendor red flags for the broader checklist, most of which applies regardless of country, and NHP or drug? How Health Canada classifies a peptide for why none of these products could have been a licensed Natural Health Product in the first place.