Technical Alerts

Following prior advice that major international changes in taxonomic naming protocol was to occur for Lactobacillus spp., those changes have now been announced in the scientific community and published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology. The full article confirming and describing the taxonomy change is available free of charge here.

This technical alert includes a table comparing all existing names for all TGA Lactobacillus active ingredients with the updated scientific names. Please see the full technical alert for more information.

Today's Technical Alert contains reminders for:

-ingredient name harmonisation (30 April 2020); and

-Final transition date fro label warning statements for Andrographis paniculata (2 May 2020).

Please click here for more information.

Please see the latest CMA Techincal Alert for more information and updates to the COLD warning statement.

This technical alert is an update for industry on the following matters in relation to COVID19 developments:

• Current TGA approach to domestic GMP inspections
• Advice in relation to extending GMP clearances
• Changes to hand sanitiser regulation - a new "excluded goods" category which declares that specified products are not therapeutic goods. This is to facilitate the manufacture and supply of large quanitties of hand sanitisers during the current pandemic's high demand. These new "excluded goods" hand sanitisers must comply with specified formulation, manufacturing, labelling, and advertising requirements. These requirements (including amended requirements). More here.

CMA has written to the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC), chaired by the Chief Medical Officer requesting that complementary medicine manufacturers, suppliers and laboratories are classed as Essential Services. Read more here.

Please read the latest guidelines on essential and non-essential services.

COVID-19 has placed all in busy and challenging times. Please CMA's tech alert for a summary of activities relevant to our sector in relation to this developing situation.

Please follow the link for an important update to the CMA Regulatory Forum, April 29 2020.

The TGA have amended their website information to provide further clarity on expectations for the end of a transition period that is stated as a requirement for an ingredient within the Permissible Ingredients Determination. Please see the CMA technical alert for more details.

There are major international naming changes coming up for probiotics currently named under the Lactobacillus genus, expected to be announced during 2020.

Developed with consensus by taxonomic experts, it aims to ensure a shared and stable language better identifying existing organisms, and will be a historic event in the field of taxonomy leading to global impacts as well as hoped-for long-term benefits on the probiotics industry.

More information here on what will be changing, when the changes are expected and more.