According to a lawsuit filed by Eli Lilly on Monday, April 7, a spa based in Indianapolis buys autoinjector pens filled with tirzepatide, cracks them open—breaking a sterile seal—and repackages them into lower unsterile doses.

On its website, the business offers deals for “brand name GLP-1 weight loss injections,” selling Lilly’s Zepbound for $350 a month and Novo Nordisk’s diabetes med Ozempic (semaglutide), which has also—against its drug label—been doubled up as a weight loss med, for $300 a month. 

In the complaint, which was filed in federal court in the Southern District of Indiana, Lilly says the spa’s advertising “explicitly contrasts the products it offers from the knock-off, untested, and unapproved products offered by other compounding pharmacies and med spas.”

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