Pharmacy Daily | TGA to publicise complaints

THE Therapeutic Goods Administration has announced that effective 01 Nov it will publish the outcome of “certain investigations into complaints about advertising” which have been referred by the Complaints Resolution Panel. The TGA says the move aims to provide guidance to advertisers on how the Regulations are interpreted “and also act as an information resource for advertisers, consumers and the media on decision making and actions taken by the TGA in advertising casewordk”. Currently the outcome of complaints are listed in a register at www.tgacrp.com.au, and where a person fails to acknowledge or act on a determination by the panel, the complaint may be referred to the TGA for follow-up action. So-called ‘Regulation 9 Orders’ by the TGA make the advertisers withdraw advertisments and publish a retraction or correction, and n future they will be detailed on the TGA website at www.tga.gov.au.

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