The government is now operating in accordance with the Guidance on Caretaker Conventions, pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
Labels are intended to communicate information that is critical to the prescriber, dispenser and consumer for the quality use of medicines. If it is difficult to identify medicines, or to locate and understand critical safety information, then medication errors are more likely to occur.
The TGA introduced new labelling requirements for medicines supplied in Australia on 31 August 2016.
- TGO 91 - Standard for labels of prescription and related medicines - external site (TGO91)
- TGO 92 - Standard for labels of non-prescription medicines - external site (TGO92)
There is also a labelling standard for biologicals: