Reforms to the regulation of non-prescription medicines
Reforms for non-prescription medicines.
Find information about non-prescription medicine reforms below.
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Complementary medicines
- Submissions received: Options for the future regulation of 'low risk' products
- The future regulation of low risk products
- MMDR: Complementary medicine regulatory reforms
Sports supplements
- Changes to the regulation of sports supplements in Australia
- Frequently asked questions: Sports supplements section 7 declaration
- Submissions received and Government response: Proposed clarification that certain sports supplements are therapeutic goods
- Regulation impact statement: Proposal to clarify that certain sports supplements should be regulated as therapeutic goods
Sunscreens
- Update on developing an alternative quality standard for sunscreen excipients
- Information on updates to the Sunscreen Standard
Indications
- Update to listed medicines indications in November 2019
- Update to listed medicines indications in January 2021
Ingredients
- High-moderate risk changes to permissible ingredients - Caffeine
- High-moderate risk changes to permissible ingredients - Andrographis paniculata
- Changes to the label warning statement requirements for menthol & methyl salicylate
- Safety review of coumarin in topical listed medicines
- Outcomes: Changes to permissible ingredients - Low-negligible risk
- Outcomes: Low-negligible risk changes to Permissible Ingredients - 2020-2021