Peptide guides for businesses in Iraq
These guides are for the people who order, check, store and formulate with peptides in Iraq: purchasing staff, laboratory staff and cosmetic formulators. Each one says what is documented, names its sources and dates in the text, and states plainly where a fact could not be found.
We supply businesses and institutions in federal Iraq and the Kurdistan Region. We do not supply individuals, and no guide here gives advice on use in a body.
Three types of peptides, three sets of rules
A peptide is a chain of amino acids. The chemistry does not decide how it may be sold; the type of product does. In Iraq a peptide reaches a buyer as one of three types:
- a medicine, registered with the Ministry of Health (in the Kurdistan Region, with the region's own Ministry of Health) and supplied through pharmacies or, for state hospitals, through Kimadia;
- a cosmetic ingredient, used by manufacturers in products for skin and hair;
- a research material, supplied to laboratories for experiments and not for use in people or animals.
We supply the second and third types. The first belongs to the licensed pharmaceutical chain.
The rules in Iraq
- Are peptides legal in Iraq?The answer by category: the Ministry of Health, Kimadia, the Kurdistan Region and the Certificate of Conformity, with a list of what no source settles.
- Research use only, explainedWhat the label means, what it does not allow, and the declaration a research buyer signs.
- Peptide injections and research peptides: the differenceTreatment comes from a doctor and a licensed pharmacy. A research supplier offers none.
- Where to buy peptides in IraqThe lawful route for each kind of buyer, and the questions to put to any supplier.
The science
- What are peptides?Amino acids, the peptide bond, peptides against proteins, and the ways peptides are grouped.
- Amino acid codesThe 20 standard amino acids: one-letter and three-letter codes, residue formulas and masses.
- How to read a certificate of analysisEach line of a peptide certificate, worked through with a manufacturer's published figures.
- Peptide purity explainedHPLC purity and net peptide content: two numbers that answer two different questions.
Cosmetic ingredients
- Copper peptides: a guide for formulatorsCopper tripeptide-1 (GHK-Cu) as a raw material: INCI name, grades, published use levels, stability and documents.
- Cosmetic peptides: an ingredient glossaryThe peptides used in skincare, by INCI name and trade name, and which of them we supply.
- Importing cosmetics into Iraq: registration and conformityMinistry of Health registration, the Certificate of Conformity for each consignment, Arabic labels, and what the ingredient supplier provides.
Laboratory handling
The tool
The peptide list
The guides explain; the range records what we supply. Each product page gives the sequence, formula, mass, strengths and box codes. Start at the range, or go straight to the research-grade line or the cosmetic-grade line.