Compound Labs / Europe

Hohenzollern Apotheke

Compounding pharmacy in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Listed, not endorsed.

Peptides Hohenzollern Apotheke names publicly

None named on its public pages.

Its compounding focus is paediatrics, dermatology and oncology.

Licence and status, as stated

Certified by the German pharmacists' central laboratory (ZL).

Who it supplies

Patients, medical practices and homecare.

Sourcing and testing, as stated

Testing: ZL certification.

These are the pharmacy's own statements. No results are published.

The rules in Europe

Pharmacy preparations fall outside EU marketing authorisation, so each country sets its own rules. A 2016 Council of Europe resolution asks for pharmacopoeia-grade ingredients and advises against compounding where an authorised equivalent exists. In Switzerland, pharmacies may compound peptides only on prescription and only from Swissmedic-approved starting materials. German mail-order pharmacies cannot ship batch-prepared compounds nationwide.

The buyer is therefore a patient with a prescription, or another pharmacy or hospital, and the realistic peptide products are oxytocin-type preparations that have a licensed reference medicine. Rules differ by country and change; check the national regulator.