Are Peptides Legal? is an Australian publication that tracks how the law treats individual peptides: where each one sits in the Poisons Standard, whether any product is approved on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, and how it is classed under the World Anti-Doping Code. It is written and maintained by the register desk, the editorial name under which the paper is published.
The paper exists because the answers people find to the question in its name are often a seller’s blog, a forum thread, or a page that was right before the law changed. BPC-157, for instance, was not in the Poisons Standard at all until June 2024.
What we publish, and what we do not
We publish the legal and regulatory position of peptides in Australia, explained in plain English and tied to the primary source: legislation, regulator pages, and the anti-doping list. The front page carries a live wire of headlines from the TGA, WADA and health reporting, selected automatically by topic.
We do not publish dosing, reconstitution, cycling or stacking information, and we do not name, rate or link to sellers of unapproved peptides. When a question amounts to “where can I buy this?”, we answer with the legal position and nothing more. We do not give medical advice or legal advice about individual circumstances.
Editorial standards
- Primary sources first. Every legal statement links to the instrument or regulator page it comes from: the Federal Register of Legislation, the TGA, Sport Integrity Australia, the Office of Drug Control, the Australian Border Force or WADA.
- Quote, then explain. Where wording matters, such as the Appendix D possession clause, we quote it rather than paraphrase it.
- Leave it out if we cannot verify it. A peptide appears in the register only when its Poisons Standard position, ARTG status and anti-doping status can each be checked against a published source. If a regulator has not said how an unnamed peptide is treated, we say it is not named and quote what the regulator has said in general.
- Date everything. Each page shows when it was last checked, and the register names the edition of the Poisons Standard it was checked against.
- No invented detail. We do not publish statistics, case outcomes or quotes we cannot link to.
How facts are checked
For each row of the register the desk reads the current Poisons Standard text for the schedule entry and any Appendix D listing, searches the ARTG by ingredient and brand, reads the relevant section of the WADA Prohibited List, and reads the Sport Integrity Australia and TGA pages on that substance where they exist. The register is checked again when a new edition of the Poisons Standard commences, when WADA’s annual list takes effect, and when the TGA publishes an alert about a peptide.
The guides go through the same process. Dates of TGA decisions and alerts are taken from the TGA’s own pages or from the explanatory statements published with each instrument.
Corrections
If something here is wrong or out of date, write to hello@arepeptideslegal.site with the page and, if you can, the source that shows the error. We check every correction request against the primary source. When we change a fact, we update the page’s date and, where the change is material, note what changed at the foot of the page.
Contact
Letters, corrections and tip-offs about new regulator decisions go to hello@arepeptideslegal.site. More on what we can and cannot help with is on the write to us page.