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Peptides are having a moment. There’s just one problem: Many of the most popular peptides on the market today are not currently permissible under the existing FDA regulatory framework. This post breaks down where these substances actually stand today and what all of this means for LegitScript-certified businesses operating within the US.

Nicotine products don’t look like nicotine products anymore, and that’s exactly the problem. Novel products are slipping past standard detection, while a backlogged FDA and a patchwork of state rules make consistent enforcement nearly impossible. A panel at Marketplace Risk’s New York conference dug into where the risk is hiding and what platforms can do.

From deepfake product photos to AI-generated NCII, trust and safety teams are facing a threat that shifts faster than most policies can keep up with. At Marketplace Risk’s New York conference, a panel of experts broke down the evasion tactics bad actors are using right now, the gray areas that trip up even experienced teams, and what it actually takes to build a policy that holds up.

Over the past year, LegitScript has seen a 59% increase in certification applications overall and a 101% increase in telemedicine applications specifically. The growth comes as telehealth has expanded into a much broader ecosystem of providers, infrastructure platforms, and specialty healthcare companies, creating new ways for businesses to reach patients and grow. Read more.

Many healthcare businesses treat website accessibility as a checkbox: install a widget and move on. But that leaves them exposed to a fast-growing wave of litigation and misses the bigger point. In the first episode of our Protecting Your Business series, LegitScript sits down with Michael Williams of Clym to unpack why accessibility is an ongoing responsibility, and how it connects directly to the transparency patients rely on to make informed decisions about their care.

Most healthcare businesses think privacy starts and ends with HIPAA. But a patchwork of consumer data privacy laws, now on the books in nearly two dozen states, can apply based on where a patient is browsing from, not where the business operates. In episode 2 of our Protecting Your Business series, LegitScript sits down with Michael Williams of Clym to unpack what it actually takes to manage privacy at scale, and why it matters most in behavioral health and addiction treatment.

Clearing accessibility and privacy compliance doesn’t give a healthcare business a free pass on its advertising. From unsubstantiated claims to tracking pixels that quietly trigger privacy laws, advertising carries its own fast-evolving risks. In episode 3 of our Protecting Your Business series, LegitScript sits down with Michael Williams of Clym to explore where advertising and disclosure scrutiny is headed, and how certification keeps what patients see aligned with the care they actually get.

Increasingly, the value of LegitScript Certification is being recognized by a new market: the patients and consumers making decisions about where to get their medications and care. Keep reading to understand why this is important and how you can properly identify LegitScript-certified businesses.

LegitScript announced that more than 10,000 websites have achieved LegitScript Certification. The certification program provides an independent standard for demonstrating compliance, building trust with consumers and industry partners, and meeting a common prerequisite that helps unlock advertising on major online platforms and streamlines payment processing. Read more.

MD Integrations and LegitScript partner to embed certification into telehealth onboarding, speeding up application reviews and helping brands launch compliant advertising and payments.

Karpa Health and LegitScript launch an Enterprise Certification Partnership, giving telehealth businesses an expedited path to certification, compliant payment processing, and advertising access.

Even the best controls aren’t perfect. As evasion tactics evolve faster than controls can adapt, platforms must start asking more questions about the violative behavior they aren’t seeing and how they can better address a confluence of challenges to stay ahead of what’s next. Read more.

Merchants and payments providers can’t wait until fall to lock down fraud defenses for the holiday rush. In this article in Digital Transactions, LegitScript’s Dan Frechtling helps explain how retailers need summer to retrain fraud models, test new rules, and catch gaps before Black Friday hits. Read the full story.

One bad account is rarely just one bad account. Pull the thread and a single bad actor can unravel an entire criminal network interwoven throughout the internet. Here’s how investigation teams track the signals, differentiate between different kinds of networks, and turn scattered clues into enforcement that sticks.

In American Banker, LegitScript’s Andy Bayley talks about a recent case that could pull banks and card networks into the same legal exposure hitting prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.

Merchant risk doesn’t stop at onboarding. LegitScript’s Dan Frechtling explains why static underwriting misses post-approval drift, and how agentic AI, fed with merchant-specific context, connects fragmented risk signals to catch problems before they escalate.

Only 48 e-cigarettes hold FDA authorization out of thousands on the market. Join LegitScript to unpack the flavor ban reversal, PMTA process, and PACT Act rules shaping ENDS compliance for payments companies and platforms.

Risk decisions that looked straightforward six months ago may not look that way today. Grey-area risk is putting more pressure on legal, compliance, trust and safety, and risk teams. In this article in Legal Reader, LegitScript’s Andy Bayley explains how organizations need a way to turn legal interpretation, risk signals, and operational judgment into decisions teams can apply in real time.

For years, the payments industry treated trust as something established once at underwriting and then relied on as the relationship scaled. Now, that approach is breaking down as technology allows bad actors to submit merchant applications at scale. In this article by LegitScript’s Dan Frechtling, learn how payments companies are combatting this problem.

What initially looked like a few isolated accounts promoting fake IDs on one of the world’s largest platforms ultimately turned out to be a massive international criminal network. Read our case study to learn how LegitScript identified the network, tracked its activity, and developed valuable intelligence to help clients quickly respond.