Update to listed medicine ingredients in June 2020

Listed medicine ingredients and requirements for their use have been updated in the Therapeutic Goods (Permissible Ingredients) Determination (No. 2) 2020, which commenced on 8 June 2020. This determination replaces the previous instrument, the Therapeutic Goods (Permissible Ingredients) Determination (No. 1) 2020.

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A total of 17 changes have been made in the updated Determination. These changes include:

• 8 new and 2 variations of ingredients, following evaluation;
• removal of expired transition period provisions for Andrographis paniculata; and
• clarification of requirements for 4 ingredients for consistency with other legislative instruments.
• a minor change to the ingredient 'hydrolysed wheat protein' for consistency with other gluten-containing ingredients and applicable standards relating to medicine labelling.
• removal of 1 ingredient as a synonym of an existing ingredient.

A complete list of changed ingredients is below.

Changed ingredients