Therapeutic Goods Order No. 64
Standard for tampons - menstrual
Federal Register of Legislative Instruments (FRLI): Legislative Instrument - F2007C00310
Published in the Commonwealth of Australia Special Gazette, No. S 347, 28 July 1999
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COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
Therapeutic Goods Act 1989
THERAPEUTIC GOODS ORDER NO. 64
Standard for Tampons - Menstrual
I, TERRY SLATER, delegate of the Minister of State for Health and Aged Care and acting under Section 10 of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, having consulted with the Therapeutic Goods Committee in accordance with subsection 10(4) of the said Act, HEREBY:
REVOKE, Therapeutic Goods Order 51, "Standards for Tampons - Menstrual", Gazetted in Gazette No 23 of 14 June 1995; and
DETERMINE that the matters specified in Australian/New Zealand Standard "AS/NZS 2869:1998, Tampons - Menstrual" shall constitute the standard for menstrual tampons, subject to the following additional requirement:
Where no sample size for sampling tampons is stipulated in the Order under paragraphs 6.1, 9, 10.1 & 10.2, a sample size of 13 must not have more than one non-complier tampon.
This order commences on the date this Order is gazetted.
Dated on this 21st day of July 1999
Terry Slater
Delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care
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