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.
- Video: About the Therapeutic Goods Administration
A short video to take you through who we are and what we do. - What the TGA regulates
The TGA is responsible for regulating the supply, import, export, manufacturing and advertising of therapeutic goods. - What the TGA does not regulate
Information about services and products the TGA does not regulate. - 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. - TGA regulatory framework
The TGA takes a risk-based approach to regulation. - 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. - About the work of the TGA - a risk management approach
Risk information is used by the TGA when deciding whether to approve a medication for supply and the conditions that might be imposed on that approval. - A history of therapeutic goods regulation in Australia
The TGA today represents the product of a long history of evolution of therapeutic products regulation in Australia.
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