Therapeutic Goods Administration

Therapeutic Goods Administration
Agency overview
Formed1989 (1989)
JurisdictionAustralian Government
Employees750 (2016)[1]
Annual budgetA$170 million (2020–21)[2]
Agency executive
  • Professor Tony Lawler, Deputy Secretary, Health Products Regulation Group[3]
Parent departmentDepartment of Health and Aged Care
Websitetga.gov.au

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is the medicine and therapeutic regulatory agency of the Australian Government.[4] As part of the Department of Health and Aged Care, the TGA regulates the safety, quality, efficacy and advertising in Australia of therapeutic goods (which comprise medicines, medical devices, biologicals and certain other therapeutic goods). Therapeutic goods include goods that are represented to have a therapeutic effect, are included in a class of goods the sole or principal use of which is (or ordinarily is) a therapeutic use, or are otherwise determined to be a therapeutic good through a legislative instrument under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989.[5] Goods that are therapeutic goods must be entered on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG), or otherwise be the subject of an exemption, approval or authority by the TGA under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989, Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 or Therapeutic Goods (Medical Devices) Regulations 2002 before they can be imported, supplied, exported or manufactured in Australia.

  1. ^ "Working for the TGA". Therapeutic Goods Administration. 15 April 2016. Archived from the original on 28 February 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Therapeutic Goods Administration Business Plan 2020–21" (PDF). Therapeutic Goods Administration. 2020. p. 10. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 February 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Structure". Therapeutics Goods Administration. 16 October 2020. Archived from the original on 15 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  4. ^ "TGA basics". Therapeutic Goods Administration. Archived from the original on 25 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.
  5. ^ "What the TGA regulates". Therapeutic Goods Administration. Archived from the original on 24 January 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2021.