Trump administration aims for regulated market for peptides, US health chief says

US Health ​Secretary Robert ​F. Kennedy Jr. said ‌in a ​Fox News interview on Tuesday that ‌the Trump administration aims to expand access to peptides by creating a regulated marketplace for ‌the drugs, which are built from short ‌chains of amino acids. "Americans are going to be buying these anyway. Our objective was to ⁠make ​sure that ⁠there is a regulated marketplace, so that what ⁠they're getting is what they claim to be, ​that is safe, that the factories ⁠are inspected," Kennedy said in an interview on ⁠Fox ​News' "The Will Cain Show."

Kennedy's comments were in response to a ⁠question about a new proposal sent by the ⁠Department ⁠of Health and Human Services to the White House about peptides.