00:01At a shopping centre in Brisbane's affluent inner north, an illegal drug deal is underway.
00:07Phil? Yeah, nice to meet you. Have a good one.
00:12This man is a social media marketplace seller, hawking unregulated peptides linked to serious medical side effects.
00:20He's selling me melanotan too, a potentially dangerous tanning injectable.
00:24It's forbidden to import or sell. Rules around buying it are blurry.
00:28Internet bought drugs particularly that were not what they said on the box.
00:32Social media is filled with listings like these advertising the illegal drugs.
00:37Sellers promised tanned skin, rapid weight loss and fast healing.
00:41Researcher Timothy Piankowski tested a range of peptides.
00:45None contained the advertised dose.
00:48Ranged from anywhere from about 40% all the way through to 190% of their labelled claims.
00:53Another seller offering weight loss drug retitrutide or Retta sent me this unverified certificate of analysis from a Chinese supplier.
01:02But a study has shown at least half of all supplier provided certificates inflate purity levels.
01:08Anyone can produce any type of document and it's really, really hard to verify any of those claims.
01:13When we contacted Meta we were told they had removed the content for violating its policies.
01:19But weeks later peptides were still being listed for sale.
01:23Dozens of online retailers also deliver the drugs to your door.
01:27Australia Post is Australia's largest drug dealer.
01:30Like people are ordering things off the internet and having them delivered to their houses.
01:33The Therapeutic Goods Administration has vowed to crack down on sellers.
01:37But with many based in China they could be fighting a losing battle.
01:44The Therapeutic Goods Administration has been able to obtain a losing battle to the house.
01:45The Therapeutic Goods Administration has proved that the Therapeutic Goods Administration had been able to collect duplicates theBLE than the
01:46people who are here per se.
01:47You
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