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PEG-MGF

Muscle & performanceRecovery & healing

A longer-acting pegylated MGF studied in muscle-recovery research.

Pegylated MGFPEG MGFPegylated Mechano Growth Factor

Get told when a price moves or a lab test changes.

Observed median price

$71

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Median of 5 listings' 30-day changes; 11 excluded for insufficient history.

16

Active listings

1 · 99.5%

Independent lab tests

$39–$480

Observed price range

4

Known aliases

Read from the certificate, not re-measured by VialGrade. Purity is not a grade. Purity vs grade

Understand this compound

What is PEG-MGF?

Preclinical / animal only

The muscle-repair signal MGF wearing a chemical raincoat so it lasts days instead of minutes. That turns a brief, local repair signal into a body-wide one — which is exactly what makes its effects unknown.

Muscle & performanceRecovery & healing
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Good to know: Turning a naturally local, transient signal into a systemic, long-lived one is a significant departure from its physiological role, with unknown off-target and long-term effects in humans.

How does PEG-MGF work?

The science

A PEGylated (polyethylene-glycol-modified) version of MGF; shares MGF's satellite-cell-activating mechanism, but PEGylation shields it from rapid proteolysis, extending systemic half-life to roughly 48-72 hours instead of minutes.

Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.

What is PEG-MGF researched for?

Studied, largely by extrapolation from MGF biology, for systemic muscle repair and hypertrophy signaling.

  • Muscle & performanceStudied in muscle-growth, repair, and physical-performance research.
  • Recovery & healingStudied in tissue-repair research — tendon, ligament, muscle, and wound-healing models.
How far has the research gone?

Preclinical / animal research; human data are essentially absent, and it is used mainly in non-clinical research settings.

Where the science stands — an approved drug is not the same as the research-grade material a vendor sells, which is unregulated regardless.

What should I check before buying?
  • Independent purity. Look for a third-party COA (Janoshik or MZ) showing a measured purity — not just a number the vendor typed.
  • Batch match. The strongest evidence is a certificate for the exact batch you’ll receive, attributed to this vendor — check the cross-verification on the listing.
  • Vendor reputation. See how the vendor is talked about in the community before trusting a new name.

Research context only — VialGrade never gives dosing, medical, or human-use guidance.

Current market

The PEG-MGF market

Every PEG-MGF listing we track — 16 in all. The standout picks first where the evidence supports them, then the full table, ranked by what a milligram really costs wherever the vendor published a strength we can read.

Open full market

Compare by real cost

Every PEG-MGF listing, cheapest per mg first

Sticker prices hide the size, so listings are ranked by what a milligram actually costs — with independently tested purity where it exists. All 16 are here: the last 3 are listings whose vendor never published a strength we can read, so they have no per-mg figure to sort on.

#VendorSizePricePer mgTested purityReal $/active mg
1Umbrella Labs5mg total$40$8.00/mg · too cheap?—$8.04/mgbest valueView
2Core Peptides5mg total$63$12.6/mg—$12.7/mgView
3Umbrella Labs5mg total5 Milligrams Vial each$76$15.2/mg—$15.3/mgView
4Biotech Peptides5mg total$79$15.8/mg—$15.9/mgView
5Purerawz10mg total$179$17.9/mg—$18.0/mgView
6Modern AminosUnavailable2mg total$39$19.5/mg—$19.6/mgView
7Ion PeptideUnavailable2mg total$39$19.5/mg—$19.6/mgView
8Simple Peptide2mg total$39$19.5/mg—$19.6/mgView
9Purerawz5mg total$100$20.1/mg—$20.2/mgView
10Peptide Pros2mg total$47$23.6/mg—$23.8/mgView

Open the full PEG-MGF market

Real $/active mg divides the price-per-mg by the measured purity — the honest cost of the actual peptide, so a 90%-pure vial isn’t compared as if it were 99%. Too cheap? flags a listing far below the market rate — often underdosing or a fake, not a deal. The crown marks the cheapest non-outlier; best value marks the lowest real cost per active mg. A vendor shown as Unavailable or Low stock is priced here but not currently buyable.

Independent testing

PEG-MGF — independent lab tests

Real, publicly verifiable third-party tests. Purity is read from the certificate itself. A test reflects one lab’s result for one submitted batch — not a guarantee that every vial matches.

How does this data get here?

Every record below is a real certificate of analysis, gathered two ways: from the public verification feeds that independent labs (like Janoshik) publish, and from the certificates vendors post on their own product pages. We open each certificate document and read the measured purity, content, batch, and date directly off it — a scraper can’t read a number printed inside an image, so this is done by machine vision, then recorded here with a link back to the original.

Nothing here is typed in by a vendor or invented by us. Where a certificate is missing, we say so rather than filling the gap.

We re-check the lab feed, too. A “still listed” tag means the certificate is currently public in Janoshik’s database — we re-verify against the live feed and stamp the date. If a cert is later pulled, the tag flips. It’s a freshness check on the same source, not a second independent opinion.

What a certificate does & doesn’t prove

Three different questions. Purity (“how clean?”), identity (“is it the right molecule?”, a mass-spec test), and content (“did I get the labeled mg?”) are separate. A vial can be 99% pure and still be the wrong peptide, or the right peptide underdosed. We flag the measured dose against the label above; underdosing is the most common real fraud.

Who submitted the sample matters. Most of these are vendor-submitted — the seller chose which vial to send, so one good certificate doesn’t prove every batch is the same. The gold standard is a blind test, where a buyer sends a vial they bought as a normal customer. Same label doesn’t prove same product; same batch number doesn’t prove same batch.

99.5%

highest tested purity

CertificateManufacturerBatchPurityContent / doseLab
Certificate of analysisSports Technology Labs2025-10-0699.45%—MZ Biolabs View

Tested batches

Batch test records for PEG-MGF

The full test history for one batch — who picked the sample, who tested it, and what came back. It describes the vials that were tested, never every vial they sold.

All batch records

What the research says

Scientific evidence & regulatory status

What the published literature actually shows about PEG-MGF — separate from any vendor’s marketing. Each finding links to its paper. This is education, not medical or dosing advice.

Regulatory status

No FDA-approved drug

Not FDA-approved. FDA placed pegylated mechano growth factor in category 2 (significant safety risks) for compounding, stating it had identified no human exposure data for any route; the nomination was later withdrawn. WADA prohibits mechano growth factors at all times (S2.3).

US legal statusBanned in drug-tested sport (WADA/USADA)

Research-use-only — not FDA-approved

Sold “for research use only,” this compound is not FDA-approved for human use and has not been evaluated for safety, purity, or sterility in people. It is generally not a scheduled controlled substance, so buying it as a research chemical is typically not itself a drug crime — but marketing or using it as a drug is not lawful, and it is not a dietary supplement.

Read the full US law →

General information, not legal or medical advice. VialGrade sells nothing and encourages no human use.

Research notes aren’t product proof

Research summaries describe published literature and market data only. They do not establish the identity, quality, safety, or legal status of any listed physical product.