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Community Q&A
The TGA often receives questions about such things as our role, or issues relating to medicines and medical devices and their use. Because these questions are of broad interest, we have provided answers to a number of them here.
We will continue to update this section as new questions come in. If you have any queries that are not answered here, please don't hesitate to contact us.
- Allergies and medicines (8 October 2020)
- Aristolochia fact sheet (24 May 2001)
- Black salve, red salve and cansema (9 December 2013)
- Buyer beware when considering weight loss products from overseas websites (29 August 2016)
- Buying medical devices (15 September 2011)
- Buying medicines and medical devices online (27 June 2016)
- Clinical trials: information for consumers (24 November 2014)
- Codeine information hub (10 April 2018)
- Cosmetic injections checklist (22 August 2019)
- Cosmetic injections: beware of 'home based' beauty services (19 November 2015)
- Current list of up-scheduled codeine containing products (15 June 2018)
- Five questions to ask your health professional before you get a medical implant (25 June 2020)
- Food and medicine regulation (31 July 2014)
- Generic prescription medicines: Fact sheet (31 August 2020)
- Medicinal cannabis products: Patient information (29 May 2018)
- Medicine labels and manufacturing information (12 March 2013)
- Microneedling: Things to consider (18 October 2019)
- Modafinil: Why 'smart drugs' are not the brightest option (22 December 2020)
- Nanotechnology and therapeutic products (9 July 2008)
- NSAIDs and cardiovascular risks: questions and answers (7 October 2014)
- Patient implant cards and information leaflets (15 November 2021)
- Performance and image enhancing drugs (31 July 2019)
- Prescription opioids: Information for consumers (18 November 2019)
- Publicly available information about therapeutic goods (13 February 2013)
- Questions to ask an overseas supplier of nicotine vaping products (11 October 2021)
- Recommended paracetamol doses (15 August 2019)
- Seasonal influenza vaccines: Questions and answers for consumers (15 April 2015)
- Sports supplements declared to be medicines (24 September 2020)
- Stem cell treatments and regulation - a quick guide for consumers (11 September 2019)
- Sunscreens: information for consumers (28 July 2021)
- Tamper-evident packaging (18 May 2017)
- TGA's compliance review of sunscreens (30 July 2018)
- Things to consider before undergoing procedures involving dermal fillers (22 August 2019)
- Three questions to ask natural health practitioners about testing services (2 April 2019)
- Weight loss: beware of buying unregulated products online (8 April 2016)
- Tags:questions & answers
- URL:https://www.tga.gov.au/node/3380