Regulation of OTC medicines in Australia

Closed/historical consultations and reviews

These documents remain on this website for historical reference.

• Required Advisory Statements for Medicine Labels - proposed update 4
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/meds/drrasmlup4.htm>
  closed 31 July 2008
• A discussion paper on regulation of extemporaneously prepared medicines in non-hospital pharmacies
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/meds/extempcomp2.htm>
  closed 23 May 2008
• Revised general requirements for tablets and capsules
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/tgo/drtgo78.htm>
  closed 7 March 2008
• Consultation on the adoption of Therapeutic Goods Order No. 77 – Microbiological standards for medicines
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/tgo/drtgo77.htm>
  closed 7 March 2008
• Update to definition of 'British Pharmacopoeia' under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 - adoption of British Pharmacopoeia 2008 (BP 2008)
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/legis/bp2008cons.htm<
  closed 25 January 2008
• Second discussion paper: Improving access to Consumer Medicines Information (CMI) and Product Information (PI)
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/meds/accesspmi2.htm>
  closed 30 March 2007
• Update to definition of 'British Pharmacopoeia' under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 - adoption of British Pharmacopoeia 2007 (BP 2007)
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/legis/bp2007cons.htm>
  closed 2 March 2007
• Revision of the Australian code of good wholesaling practice for therapeutic goods for human use
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/consult/2006/cgwp-dr.htm>
  closed 11 August 2006
• Public access to information contained in ARTG entries for therapeutic goods
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/consult/2005/artgaccess.htm>
  closed 3 February 2006
• Regulation of new excipients in topical non-prescription medicines
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/npmeds/topical.htm>
  closed 16 December 2005
• Review of the need for further regulation of extemporaneous compounding
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/meds/extempcomp.htm>
  September 2005
• Review of Aspirin / Reye's syndrome warning statement
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/npmeds/aspirin_reye.htm>
  April 2004
• Review of non-prescription analgesics - an update
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/analgupd.htm>
  April 2003
• Review of non-prescription analgesics
  <http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/analgesics.htm>
  February 1998