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TGA approved terminology for medicines

4 July 2018

The TGA develops and maintains approved terminology to ensure accuracy and consistency of the information about medicines on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG).

These approved terms are to be used in:

  • applications to register or list a medicine on the ARTG
  • labels and packaging for medicines
  • Product Information documents provided with medicines
  • Consumer Medicine Information documents provided with medicines

Approved terminology basics

Forms

Application forms for proposing:

Approved names for medicine ingredients

Other terminology to describe medicines

Information about other terminology to describe medicines, including:

Herbal ingredient indexes

Further information about naming herbal ingredients in medicines:

Print version of TGA approved terminology for medicines (pdf,1.2Mb)*

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Notification of a proprietary ingredient

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Contact details

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Approved names for chemical or biological ingredients or terminology to describe medicines: TGA Names.

Approved names for herbal ingredients: Complementary Medicines

Approved names for herbal ingredients: 1800 044 114