Supply for IV drip clinics and mobile IV services.

The regulatory position, before anything else

Everything a peptide supplier like us holds is designated research use only. It is not approved for human use in the Philippines, it is not registered as a drug with FDA Philippines, and it is not sold for administration to patients. A clinic that uses any of it on a person is making its own regulatory decision and carrying its own exposure. We would rather write that at the top of the page than bury it at the bottom.

The law behind that is not obscure. Republic Act No. 9711, the Food and Drug Administration Act of 2009, gives FDA Philippines authority over drugs and other health products, including the registration of products and the licensing of the establishments that make, import, distribute and sell them. A product used on patients is expected to sit inside that system. A research-use-only vial sits outside it, which is precisely what the label means. Research use only, explained covers the designation in more detail.

FDA Philippines has also been specific about the IV and aesthetic market. Its public advisories have repeatedly warned against unregistered health products, and FDA Advisory No. 2019-182 addresses the unsafe use of glutathione as a skin lightening agent, including by injection. A drip bar operates in a part of the market the regulator is already watching.

Facility and professional questions, such as whether a mobile service needs its own licence, which professionals may do what, and what records the Department of Health expects, are outside what a supplier can answer. Get regulatory advice from a lawyer or consultant who works with Philippine health facilities before you buy anything, and get tax advice on how the business is set up. That is not a formality. It is the decision that determines whether the rest of this page applies to you at all.

What this guide covers, and what it never will

This guide covers supply only: stock, restock, storage, transport, records and invoicing. It contains no dosing, no IV protocols and no administration content, and that is permanent rather than an omission.

We will not tell a clinic what to use, how much, how often, in what combination or for whom, and we will not supply material for a clinic to hand a client that implies we did. That is the line between supplying a research-use-only compound and practising medicine through someone else's business. A supplier who offers a drip bar a protocol is telling it what it wants to hear and manufacturing a liability for both of them.

The wider version of this position, written for aesthetic clinics, med spas and wellness centres, is on clinic and med spa supply and in peptides for aesthetic clinics in the Philippines. The rest of this page is the part specific to drip bars and mobile services.

Why IV businesses have a supply problem other clinics do not

A drip bar or mobile IV service has a harder supply problem than a typical clinic because its stock moves, its demand is booked in advance, and its working environment is a vehicle in Philippine heat.

A dermatology clinic keeps stock in one fridge in one room. A mobile service keeps stock in a fridge, then in a cooler, then in a car on the way to a condo in BGC or a house in Alabang, then back again. Every stage is a chance for a vial to sit warm. A walk-in drip bar has a fixed room, but its book is often heavy on weekends and paydays, which means demand arrives in peaks rather than evenly.

And the cost of running out is unusually visible. A client who booked a home visit for Saturday is told on Friday that it is off. That does not just lose one appointment; it loses the client's confidence in the booking itself. For a service whose whole pitch is convenience, a supply gap is a product failure.

Local stock and restock speed

Local stock matters more to an IV business than almost any other buyer, because the gap between noticing a shortfall and the next booked appointment is often a day or less.

Everything we hold sits in Metro Manila cold storage rather than a warehouse abroad. Inside Metro Manila, weekday orders confirmed before 12 noon arrive the same day by rider. Outside the metro, delivery is 1 to 5 business days by region: Luzon in 1 to 2 business days, the Visayas in 2 to 3 and Mindanao in 3 to 5. A service in Cebu, Iloilo or Davao should plan its reorder point around that window rather than around the metro one.

Every order ships in insulated packaging with a cold pack, in plain outer packaging with nothing on the box describing the contents. For a mobile service operating out of a condo or a shared office, that matters at the front desk as much as it does in transit. Delivery detail by region is on the delivery page.

Allocation against an appointment book

Allocation means stock is held against your booked volume, so a compound you rely on is not competing with retail demand for the last vials on the shelf.

An IV business is in an unusually good position to use it, because it already knows its demand. The appointment book is a forecast. Tell us roughly how many vials a month the book consumes and how much the weekend and payday peaks swing it, and we hold against that figure.

The cadence that works best for most practices is a standing order sized to a normal month, plus a top-up route for an unusually busy week, rather than reordering each time a shelf looks thin. Reactive reordering is how a service ends up permanently one step behind its own calendar. If a compound is running short on our side, accounts with a known cadence hear before they run out, with the restock date we actually believe.

For pack-sized quantities, every price we publish is on the pack pricing page, open to anyone without an account. Volume above a pack is quoted per account on WhatsApp, against your actual order.

Storage in a vehicle and in Manila heat

The principle for mobile stock is that a vial should spend as little time as possible out of a fridge, and none of it in a parked car. Sealed lyophilised powder is stable in a freezer and tolerates a fridge. Once reconstituted, a vial belongs in the fridge and should not be frozen. Everything else follows from those two facts.

• Never leave stock in a parked car

  The inside of a closed car in Philippine sun heats far above the outside temperature within minutes, and a cooler slows that down rather than stopping it. If the car is parked, the cooler goes with the person.

• Use a proper hard-sided cooler

  With enough cold packs for the longest day on the schedule, not the average one. Keep it in the air-conditioned cabin, not the boot, and out of direct sun through the windows.

• Keep vials off the cold packs

  A layer of cloth or foam between packs and vials stops a reconstituted vial freezing against a pack, which is as much a problem as warming.

• Carry the day's allocation, not the shelf

  Take what the day's bookings need plus a small margin. Stock that rides around all day and comes back unused has had a harder life than stock that stayed in the fridge.

• Put a thermometer in the cooler

  A cheap digital thermometer, or a small data logger if the service is busy, turns a guess about whether the cooler held into a reading you can write down.

• Back in the fridge at the end of the day

  Unused stock goes straight back into a dedicated stock fridge, not the staff fridge that is opened all day.

Traffic is part of the plan. A trip across Metro Manila on a Friday evening can take far longer than the map suggests, so pack the cooler for the worst version of the route. Longer storage guidance is in storing peptide stock in the Philippines.

Brownouts and the stock fridge

A brownout is a storage event, and a drip bar or mobile base should have a written plan for one before the first long outage rather than during it.

The basics are simple. A dedicated stock fridge that is not opened through the day holds its temperature for much longer in an outage than a busy shared one. Keep it closed during a brownout and resist checking it. A fridge thermometer that records the highest temperature reached tells you afterwards what actually happened. If your area has frequent or long outages, a small inverter or generator for the stock fridge is cheaper than losing a shelf of stock, and frozen cold packs kept in the freezer give you a fallback cooler at short notice.

Write down any outage that affected the stock fridge, with the date and how long it lasted, next to the batches that were inside. It is part of the batch record, and it is the first thing anyone will ask if a question about a vial comes up later.

Batch records for a mobile operation

Every vial we supply carries a batch number, and a mobile service should record which batch went out on which day and with which team, because stock that travels is harder to account for than stock that sits on a shelf.

The minimum is a log of batches received, batches loaded into each cooler each day, and batches returned to the fridge at night. If you already log lot numbers in your own records, ours slot in the same way; there is no portal or separate system to adopt. Leave the batch number on the vial readable and never cover it with your own label.

Messaging a batch number on WhatsApp tells you which run it came from. Lab reports are published per batch on the batch reports page as they are issued, and each entry states what it covers and what it does not. Do not describe a product to a client in testing terms beyond what a published report covers.

Invoicing and paying

If your business needs a BIR-registered invoice, say so in the first message, and we confirm what we can issue before you order rather than after. It is a common request from practices and it is far better settled up front than discovered at payment.

Pay by GCash, Maya, QR Ph bank transfer or InstaPay in the Philippines, or by Wise, international bank transfer, Zelle or crypto from abroad. Confirmed in chat. No card checkout. Cash on delivery is available on request, subject to the conditions in our terms. There is no payment page on this site. A standing account reorders by sending a message in the same WhatsApp thread with compounds and quantities, with no portal and no purchase order.

NAD+ and the rest of the catalogue

NAD+ is in the catalogue as a lyophilised vial. Described by what it is: nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide, a coenzyme found in every living cell and studied for its role in cellular energy metabolism. It is supplied for research use only, on the same terms as everything else here, and nothing on this page says what it does to anyone.

The same is true of the rest of the catalogue. Each product page states the compound's regulatory status in the Philippines and the US. None of it is an approved medicine here, no regulator has cleared any of it for a therapeutic use, and a supplier writing treatment claims for a drip bar to repeat would be creating a liability for both businesses.

If you are asking about a compound that is not stocked, ask on WhatsApp; the sourcing route is wider than the catalogue, and you get a real lead time before you commit to anything.