5-Amino-1MQ in Canada: what's sold and how to check it

Yes. Research-grade 5-Amino-1MQ is available in Canada from domestic suppliers that stock it for laboratory use, and pepuro carries it in 5 mg, 10 mg and 50 mg vials. It ships from inside Canada, so the parcel never sits in customs. It is not a peptide, even though it is almost always sold in the same catalog, in the same kind of vial, as the peptides.

The distinction changes how you check a vial. A peptide has a published sequence, so you can work out the mass its report should show and compare. A small molecule has no residue chain to read from, which puts more weight on the report's own numbers and on the form the vial holds. Both questions come down to documentation you can read before ordering.

Research use only. This page covers material supplied for in-vitro laboratory research. It is not a drug, a supplement or a food, is not approved by Health Canada or the FDA, and is not for human or animal consumption.

What 5-Amino-1MQ is

5-Amino-1MQ is the shortened name for 5-amino-1-methylquinolinium. The "amino" in it is an amino group attached to the ring, not an amino acid, which is the first sign this is not a peptide.

The molecule is a small-molecule inhibitor of NNMT, nicotinamide N-methyltransferase. That enzyme methylates nicotinamide, a precursor of NAD+, and work on NNMT inhibition has looked at NAD+ levels in adipocyte and other cell models.

At 160.22 g/mol the free base is small next to the peptides it shares a catalog with: KPV is 353.42 g/mol and TB-500 is 4963.44 g/mol.

Is 5-Amino-1MQ a peptide?

No. A peptide is a chain of amino acids joined by peptide bonds, and its behavior follows from how long that chain is and what order the residues sit in. 5-Amino-1MQ is one quinolinium ring carrying an amino group and a methyl group, so there is no sequence to calculate from.

The question comes up for commercial reasons rather than chemical ones: 5-Amino-1MQ is shelved beside the peptides, sold in the same vials and tested with the same methods, so it gets filed under "peptides" in shop menus and search results. SARMs vs peptides draws the same class line for another group of non-peptides sold into this market, and what are research peptides covers the definition itself.

Is 5-Amino-1MQ available and legal in Canada?

Available, yes. Canadian research chemical suppliers sell it and ship domestically. There is no counter to walk up to for it anywhere in the country, so mail order from a supplier inside Canada is the usual route.

• Does the vial ship from within Canada, or does it arrive through customs?
• Is there a lab report for the batch in the vial, or one PDF reused across every batch?
• Does the report name the lab that ran the test?
• Is the supplier clear that the material is for research use only?

Guides for other single compounds run through that same set of checks: BPC-157 in Canada and DSIP in Canada both come down to availability plus verification.

On the legal side, 5-Amino-1MQ is bought and sold in Canada as a research chemical for in-vitro laboratory work, not as a drug, a supplement, a food or a cosmetic, and it carries no Health Canada approval for human or animal consumption. What is not permitted is marketing, selling or using it as a drug. Are research peptides legal in Canada sets out where that line sits. This page is general information, not legal advice.

How to check a 5-Amino-1MQ vial

Everything rests on the batch report, and on the vial matching it. A complete report shows:

• purity by HPLC, with pepuro's shipping floor at 99% or higher
• a mass-spec result, with the observed mass beside the expected one
• the form the material was supplied as
• a batch number that matches the code on the vial
• the name of an independent lab, and a test date later than the vial's fill date

The form line is easy to overlook, and it matters here. The free base is 160.22 g/mol, and the iodide salt it is commonly supplied as weighs more, because the counterion adds mass without adding the molecule. That changes the number a mass-spec result should return. The gonadorelin handling guide works through the same point for a peptide supplied as an acetate salt.

How to read a peptide lab report walks through every line, including the tells that catch a recycled or faked report. Every pepuro vial carries a QR code that opens the report for its own batch. Storage for a sealed vial is covered in the BPC-157 handling guide.

What a 5-Amino-1MQ vial costs in Canada

The price per milligram falls as the vial gets larger. These are list prices on the date of this article; the product card above shows the current price.

Prices are in Canadian dollars and shipping inside Canada is free, so the shelf price is the delivered price. A US listing adds sales tax above CAD $40, duty above CAD $150 and carrier brokerage, and a parcel can be held at the border. Importing research peptides from the US works through that cost stack.

Every 5-Amino-1MQ vial from pepuro ships free from our Calgary, Toronto and Vancouver distribution centers, dispatches the same business day your e-Transfer clears, and carries a QR code on the vial that opens its independent, third-party lab report.

For research use only. Not for human or animal consumption.