gray market

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While that argument addresses quality-control concerns associated with the gray market, it doesn’t confront the fundamental question of whether peptides are safe.

From Salon • Apr. 4, 2026

People familiar with the plans said the administration’s goal is to let compounders make the banned peptides again and shut down a gray market of products that Kennedy said is a result of existing regulations.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 22, 2026

“He tried to bring some order into this otherwise chaotic, gray market economy,” Karen Sosa, who represented Cho, said in her opening statement.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2024

Prices for carboplatin, cisplatin, and other drugs have skyrocketed on the so-called gray market, where speculators sell medicines they snapped up in anticipation of shortages.

From Scientific American • Jun. 21, 2023

There were also dark secrets people didn’t much talk about, along with a gray market of gossip that could spread the ill-informed rumor as fast as any IM or text network.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel