[2026 update] US compounding rules and how they changed posts 31–38

Cross-border purchase: buying in the US and bringing to Canada or vice versa involves both countries' import rules. The medication is legal but crossing borders with it is regulated.

Say which country and which state or province. Regulatory position, availability and practical route can all differ within the same continent and frequently do.

Where I would look next, rather than where I would stop.

Date every claim in this subcategory. Positions here have moved repeatedly and old posts are read as current.

That much is documented. The rest is how I have interpreted it.

Answering the question post #30 raises rather than the one it answers.

The public assessment documents published at approval are free, detailed and largely unread here.

The step people skip is the one I have spelled out.

Both are useful and different. The account tells you what happens in practice; the criterion tells you what to write.

The reasoning is more useful than the number, which is why I have shown it.

Nothing to add, except that this is the answer I would give if asked.

Narrowing post #35, because the general version has more than one answer.

Cross-border purchasing raises both a legal question and a practical one, and the legal one is yours to establish for your own jurisdiction.

Everything in post #34 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.

Shortage status determines what compounding is permitted in some jurisdictions, which is why the availability question and the compounding question are linked.