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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) -A bill moving through the Colorado Senate would place new regulations on compounded weight loss medications, targeting products that lawmakers say can be misleading to consumers.
GLP-1 weight loss medications have grown rapidly in recent years. According to the American Medical Association, spending on GLP-1s rose by more than 500 percent from 2018 to 2023.
What the bill would do
Senate Bill 26-066 does not target brand-name products such as Ozempic and Wegovy. Instead, it focuses on compounded weight loss medications, which are custom-made drugs that do not require FDA approval.
The bill prohibits false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims and sets requirements for how the drugs are sold.
“If you’re compounding for GLP-1 weight loss, it’s either got to be FDA approved, or the ingredients are coming from an FDA inspected facility,” said Sen. John Carson (R-CO-30). “And it needs to be accurately labeled what the ingredients are and where they’re coming from.”
Carson said the bill was prompted in part by a lot of questionable and misleading products they have seen.
“I’ve gotten solicitations, for example, online of medications that will say get your Ozempic for $29 a month or whatever,” Carson said. “When you actually click on it, go in there, it’s not Ozempic at all. It’s some other product, which, the ones I’ve seen, they do say it’s not FDA reviewed or approved.”
Exemptions in the bill
The legislation includes several exemptions. Hospitals and long-term care facilities would not be subject to the new rules. The bill also would not affect individual doctor-patient relationships.
“We don’t interfere with an individual doctor-patient relationship,” Carson said. “If the doctor is prescribing a particular weight loss treatment, this bill is not going to say you can’t do that.”
Enforcement and next steps
If signed into law, the attorney general’s office would have authority to enforce SB26-066 as a deceptive trade practice under the Colorado Consumer Protection Act.
Carson said the bill would benefit Coloradans purchasing weight loss products.
“I think it would improve just the confidence of people that when they’re buying GLP-1 products, that they’re going to get a good quality and a safe product, and they’re going to be informed on what the ingredients are, and they’re going to know that it’s not some knockoff product,” he said.
The bill has passed committee in the Senate and will be considered by the full Senate floor on Monday.
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