As part of the Department of Health, the TGA safeguards and enhances the health of the Australian community through effective and timely regulation of therapeutic goods.
How the TGA regulates The TGA regulates therapeutic goods through: pre-market assessment, post-market monitoring and enforcement of standards, licensing of Australian manufacturers and verifying overseas manufacturers' compliance with the same standards as their Australian counterparts
Therapeutic product vigilance TGA's approach to therapeutic product vigilance is to continually monitor and evaluate the safety and efficacy (performance) profile of therapeutic products and to manage any risks associated with individual products
Treatment of information provided to the TGA Information that is provided to TGA, such as personal, business or commercially confidential information, is treated as official information.