Update to listed medicine ingredients in June 2020

Listed medicine ingredients and requirements for their use have been updated in the Therapeutic Goods (Permissible Ingredients) Determination (No. 2) 2020 - external site, which commenced on 8 June 2020. This determination replaces the previous instrument, the Therapeutic Goods (Permissible Ingredients) Determination (No. 1) 2020 - external site.

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A total of 17 changes have been made in the updated Determination. These changes include:

• 8 new and 2 variations of ingredients, following evaluation;
• removal of expired transition period provisions for Andrographis paniculata; and
• clarification of requirements for 4 ingredients for consistency with other legislative instruments.
• a minor change to the ingredient 'hydrolysed wheat protein' for consistency with other gluten-containing ingredients and applicable standards relating to medicine labelling.
• removal of 1 ingredient as a synonym of an existing ingredient.

A complete list of changed ingredients is below.

Changed ingredients