A product is classified as a medicine if it is represented to be a therapeutic good, likely to be taken for therapeutic use, or declared to be a therapeutic good.
You need to know whether products are regulated as therapeutic goods or as a food, sports or cosmetic product as different regulatory requirements apply.
More information
Food medicine
- Section 7 declarations - food or therapeutic good?
- Food-Medicine Interface Guidance Tool (FMIGT)
- Food-Medicine Interface Guidance Tool (FMIGT) - plain version
- Food-Medicine Interface Guidance Tool questions - explanation and information
- Food and medicine regulation
Cosmetics
- Cosmetics
- Presentation: Regulation of products with tradition of use at the Food/Cosmetic-Medicine interfaces
- Advertising: when cosmetics are regulated as therapeutic goods
Sports supplements
- Is my sports supplement a therapeutic good?
- Sports supplements declared to be medicines
- Changes to the regulation of sports supplements in Australia
- Declaration that certain sports supplements are therapeutic goods
- Frequently asked questions: Sports supplements section 7 declaration