Urgent new warning to anyone buying weight loss jabs online - 'too good to be true'

Urgent new warning to anyone buying weight loss jabs online - 'too good to be true'The National Pharmacy Association is warning patients to be waryCommentsNewsSteven Smith Content Editor06:39, 16 Apr 2026View 3 ImagesThere's a new warning(Image: Peter Dazeley via Getty Images)People ordering weight loss jabs online have been issued with a new alert. Roughly one in 10 online pharmacies have had their websites and social media accounts copied by platforms flogging counterfeit weight-loss jabs, a survey has revealed.‌The National Pharmacy Association (NPA) urged patients to be "wary" of providers offering medication at a price that is "too good to be true", and accused social media companies of being "asleep at the wheel". The organisation, which represents 6,000 pharmacies across Britain, has also written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting demanding tougher protections for patients.‌The poll of 100 online pharmacies discovered that around one in 10 had their online presence duplicated by illegal weight-loss jab providers over the past year. Meanwhile, almost two in five have come across patients who had unknowingly purchased fake weight-loss drugs in the last 12 months. The vast majority (95.2%) of pharmacies that responded said they are worried about the unlawful sale of these jabs and the threat they pose to patient safety.‌One pharmacy only discovered their online presence had been cloned after being contacted by a patient who had purchased counterfeit Mounjaro from a site masquerading as their pharmacy. The drug was a quarter of the price.In several cases, the counterfeit providers had also replicated regulator logos, including those belonging to the Care Quality Commission and the General Pharmaceutical Council.View 3 ImagesThe National Pharmacy Association has written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting(Image: Alishia Abodunde, Getty Images)‌Sehar Shahid, board member at the NPA, said: "I know first-hand how distres...