Your GLP-1s Are Coming From China. WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!

There's a whole new reason to stay away from GLP-1 weight loss medicine. It has to do with China. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. Let's talk about the thing almost every American celebrity seems to love. I'm talking about GLP-1. It's in Ozempic, Mounjaro, and other meds like them. It's the quickest way to lose weight that doesn't involve receiving sympathy cards. It's getting more popular among Americans, especially women. And it's not just because of increases in type 2 diabetes. Or type 3 diabetes, which I assume Chris Christie is patient zero of. Drink it in. This is what peak political performance looks like. People take them to get thinner, without the hassle of working out. Or having good genes. Just pausing here because I've been told this is good for our engagement. That's just one problem. Ok, two problems. I hate needles. But the other one is Americans are getting their GLP-1s from… China. As with anything that gets popular, Chinese companies are rushing into the weight loss drug craze. Which is probably the first time in history communists tried to help people get skinny through drugs, rather than, you know, starvation. After the FDA announced a global shortage of GLP-1s in 2022, the number of Chinese manufacturers marketing components for GLP-1s shot up drastically. That's a man-made disaster waiting to happen. Which China has experience with. The thing is, China isn't exactly known for its quality control. The Chinese Communist Party is all about shortcuts, corruption, and disregard for human life. Which is why you get things like the infamous 2008 tainted milk powder scandal that killed 6 babies and sickened 300,000. 100,000. Tainted blood thinners that killed Americans. The 2025 kindergarten lead poisoning scandal that sickened more than 200 children. Which Chinese officials helped cover up. And there's so much more. During Covid, we saw China at best produce subpar medicine, and at worst create fake medicines. So it's not exactly surprising that, according to a recent Bloomberg report, US inspectors at the Food and Drug Administration visiting China found black mold and bugs at a Chinese plant that makes GLP-1 compounding agents. That'll definitely help with weight loss, because after hearing that I've lost my appetite. The plant in question belongs to Chengdu Shengnuo Biopharm Co., a subsidiary of Chengdu Shengnuo Biotech Co. But it's worse than just that, because when FDA inspectors arrived at the Chengdu Shengnuo plant, they caught quality control staff running with documents from their lab to a room across the hall where they stuffed the papers into lockers. The inspectors weren't able to recover all the documents, but I'm sure it's fine. Innocent people always hastily and sweatily destroy evidence all the time. They also saw personnel pouring product samples into sinks in a seemingly coordinated effort. You know their product is totally safe when they're disposing of it, like drug dealers do to crack during a SWAT raid. That wasn't the only plant with problems. In another plant belonging to Nanjing Chenggong Pharmaceutical Co., inspectors discovered that workers had been buying active ingredients made by other factories and slapping Nanjing Chenggong's seal of approval on them. And Nanjing Chenggong's staff didn't even bother to review those other factories' testing information to confirm that their products were safe. Here's the worst part. We're lucky we have even this information. The US technically requires drug and active ingredient makers to test samples and hold on to supporting documentation. But historically, the FDA has regularly outsourced its oversight and investigation duties to China, or neglected inspections altogether. It has even allowed China to dictate the terms and conditions for inspections, by providing advance notice and relied on the Chinese to faithfully translate for US officials. Fortunately things have been changing in the right direction. In 2025, the FDA announced it was expanding unannounced inspections abroad, and raising the bar for foreign site inspections. Both of which would explain all the people seen shoving papers into lockers and pouring product down the sinks. In response to its horrific findings, the FDA has put the two Chinese companies I mentioned on an import alert list, which allows them to stop future shipments without tests. But the FDA needs to watch out for far more than just those two companies. There's a huge industry for black market peptides. With Chinese fingerprints all over them. And given their health and safety standards, I assume those fingerprints are unwashed, sticky, and smell something awful. In fact, Chinese companies are openly advertising black market peptides that promise weight loss, tissue repair, and tanning at a fraction of the price of name brand GLP-1s. No wonder Canada loves China so much all of a sudden. Justin Trudeau now has a cheaper way to do his Halloween tanning. And to get skinny girlfriends that look like they have a picture hidden somewhere, keeping them immortal. These black market peptides can be found on Chinese apps like Temu. And they are not FDA approved or tested in any way. Some of them are even labeled for research purposes only to dodge lawsuits. At this point, I think the responsible thing for doctors to do is advise patients, just be fat my guy, it's healthier. And working wonders for Chris Christie. Many counterfeit peptides are already being linked to severe health issues, like acute liver damage. Or cancer. Which I guess technically helps people lose weight. What insurance is covering this stuff? A monkey's paw? Which I assume is an HMO. Heck, even Chinese makers of fentanyl ingredients are getting in on the bootleg peptide industry. Great, now you can be skinny and a zombie. Happy Halloween! So it's probably a good idea to not get your weight loss drugs on Timu. Do I really need to say that? But even some pharmacies are selling compounded copies of name brand GLP-1s containing Chinese ingredients from who knows where. And as for the name brands like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, Well, we just don't know where their ingredients come from. The US has a big problem with drug supply chain exposure to China. The CCP could turn that spigot off like that should a war break out. And let me remind you, they already see themselves as being at war with the US. So really, we're already in a place where American pharma companies are putting US citizens at risk by depending on China to produce medicine. An FDA veteran reacted to the mold and bug story by saying the inspection findings suggest Just a serious accident waiting to happen. But hey, it's all worth it to look like a night demon sucked out your soul while you were sleeping. That's what China Uncensored is all about. Not sucking out your souls, reminding people not to rely too much on China. If you want to support China Uncensored so we can keep making more episodes, click this button here to subscribe to my website ChinaUncensored.tv. The link is below. And for a limited time only, people who subscribe with an annual premium or VIP membership subscription will get this! For legal reasons, I'm not allowed to call it LEGO Tank Man. Because CCP cover-ups can give you cancer. But you won't sign up just for this truly amazing one-of-a-kind free gift. You'll also come for the fun events, like this Saturday's China Uncensored Horror Livestream, Where Matt, Shelley, and I will be playing Iron Lung. 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