Can you bring peptides to Australia?

• Peptides

  depends on specifics

  Without a prescription: don't bring them. Australia's Poisons Standard lists BPC-157, TB-500 (thymosin beta-4), ipamorelin, CJC-1295, GHRP-6, GHRP-2, hexarelin, AOD-9604, ibutamoren and Melanotan II as prescription-only medicines (Schedule 4). All but Melanotan II are also on its list of medicines that are illegal to possess without authority. A traveller's personal supply of a Schedule 4 medicine is only exempt if a doctor has given written authority, such as a prescription. A doctor overseas counts. With one: carry the prescription or a doctor's letter in English, bring no more than 3 months' supply in packaging that identifies the medicine, and declare it.

  Athletes, and sporting staff travelling with them, need written permission from the Office of Drug Control to bring hormones and peptides, even with a prescription. This entry covers only the peptides the Poisons Standard names. Others, such as selank, semax, kisspeptin or retatrutide, aren't named in it, so we can't confirm how they're treated.

  Also covers: peptides, peptide, research peptides, bpc-157, bpc 157, tb-500, tb 500, thymosin beta-4, thymosin beta 4, ipamorelin, cjc-1295, ghrp-6, ghrp-2, pralmorelin

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  Source Therapeutic Goods (Poisons Standard—October 2026) Instrument 2026 (in force 1 October 2026)Checked against the source on 2026-10-15

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Informational only — not legal advice. Customs rules change; confirm with the official source above before you travel. Not medical advice. Don't stop or change a medicine because of a travel rule without talking to your doctor. See update history