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TGA approved terminology for therapeutic goods
30 March 2020
The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) develops and maintains approved terminology to ensure the accuracy and consistency of information on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG). This provides a consistent and standardised method for naming:
- ingredients
- components
- routes of administration
- dosage forms
- container types
- units of expression
- proportion.
Approved terminology provides a standardised format for identifying ingredients used in therapeutic goods as part of:
- 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
- Other promotional material where use of approved terminology is required.
Approved terminology basics
- Where to find the approved terminology
- The legal basis for using approved terminology
- Methods to complete an approved herbal name
- Proposing a new ingredient name
Forms
Application forms for proposing:
Approved names for medicine ingredients
Herbal ingredient indexes
Further information about naming herbal ingredients in medicines: