What happened to the old product?
As of September 28, 2026, FDA records listed the old Geref products as no longer sold.
See FDA’s drug-record dataA guide for the questions behind a search for sermorelin care.
Does old approval cover today’s product?
An offer can mention an old drug approval and leave out what is being supplied now. Those are separate questions.
The mix-up
If sermorelin once had approval, is the medicine offered today approved too?
In sermorelin’s case
As of September 28, 2026, no US sermorelin product had approval from FDA, the agency that reviews medicines.
A pharmacy-made version does not inherit the old approval.
What does FDA approval mean?
For a particular medicine and its stated use, FDA reviews evidence. Those letters stand for Food and Drug Administration.
Sermorelin (Geref) once had approval for a test of whether the body could release growth hormone. It also had approval for certain growth problems in children.
Those approvals ended in June 2009.
What is a pharmacy-made medicine?
A pharmacy compounds a medicine when it makes it to order. That differs from handing out a drug company’s ready-made product.
Compounded medicines lack FDA approval; that was their status on September 26, 2026.
Before compounded medicines reach a patient, FDA does not review their safety, effectiveness or quality.
Can that still be a lawful route?
When a licensed health professional orders medicine for a patient, that order is a prescription.
A state pharmacy licence gives a pharmacy permission to operate.
The full ingredient name is sermorelin acetate. “Acetate” identifies the form of sermorelin used in the old approved drug.
A state-licensed pharmacy may prepare sermorelin acetate on a valid prescription naming the patient, as of September 28, 2026. All the rules for making medicine to order still apply.
For the ingredient’s maker, FDA registration is required: the maker must appear in FDA’s records. A written quality record must accompany the ingredient. The pharmacy must also follow any applicable medicine-making standards.
The FDA documents describe general rules; they do not give specific permission to make sermorelin. Whether a particular pharmacy meets the rules still needs checking.
State pharmacy rules can add limits.
Ask the pharmacy which rules apply and how it meets them. If the answer is unclear, ask your state pharmacy board, which oversees pharmacies.
What backs this answer?
Follow the record, at your pace.
Why might a pharmacy be able to make it?
FDA guidance says a pharmacy may use an ingredient from an approved drug if it meets the other rules for making medicine to order.
That ingredient rule does not make a pharmacy’s finished medicine FDA-approved.
Read FDA’s ingredient guidance