Complementary Medicines and the TGA

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is Australia's regulatory authority for therapeutic goods and carries out a range of assessment and monitoring activities to ensure therapeutic goods available in Australia are of an acceptable standard with the aim of ensuring that the Australian community has access, within a reasonable time, to therapeutic advances.

Complementary medicines (also known as 'traditional' or 'alternative' medicines) include vitamin, mineral, herbal, aromatherapy and homoeopathic products.  They may be either listed or registered, depending on their ingredients and the claims made. The TGA provides:

*Complementary medicine regulation basics
*General information about how complementary medicines are regulated in Australia
*Standards, guidelines & publications
*Standards, guidelines and publications about the regulation of complementary medicines
*Forms for complementary medicine sponsors
*Links to forms for sponsors of complementary medicines
*Regulatory decisions & notices
*Notices and advice for sponsors and manufacturers of complementary medicines