The peptide problem: Hype is outrunning the evidence The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving toward allowing compounding pharmacies to produce more than a dozen injectable peptides that were banned because of potentially significant safety risks, the New York Is the lack of human data in BPC 157 a red flag? If a drug could actually knit torn tendons back together in weeks, a trillion dollar pharmaceutical industry probably wouldn't bury Is BPC 157 Banned? Oral vs. Injectable Forms Explained The Food and Drug Administration will hold a meeting this summer to consider easing restrictions on more than a half dozen peptide injections, a group of unapproved therapies that have become popular