Consumer Safety

Each year many children and adults are injured as a result of goods that are defective, unsafe or fail to meet prescribed construction, performance and design standards. This topic includes a range of helpful information from product safety recalls to what to look for to decide if products are safe.

Information about current product recalls is avilable from the Product Recalls Australia [Australian Government. The Treasury] website. Information about recalls of therapeutic goods, including drugs and devices, is available from the Therapeutic Goods Administration's Recalls and alerts [Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing] website.

Updated September 2008

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Title:   Product Recalls Australia
Publisher:   Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Description:   The site enhances consumer safety by providing current product recall information based on notifications provided to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer.
Date:   Mar 2007
Title:   Medicine Recalls
Publisher:   HealthInsite Topic Page
Description:   Links to information about medicine recalls.
Date:   Nov 2007
Title:   Health alert: recall of Lida Daidaihua Slimming Capsules
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   A South Australian company, Mekong Grocery, upon instructions from Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), is undertaking a consumer level recall of the product Lida Daidaihua Slimming Capsules as it contains an undeclared pharmaceutical ingredient.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Review of the Uniform Recall Procedure for Therapeutic Goods
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Uniform Recall Procedure for Therapeutic Goods (URPTG) outlines the procedure to be used in the event of a recall and defines the actions and responsibilities of health authorities and sponsors when therapeutic goods for use in humans, for reasons relating to their quality, safety or efficacy, are to be removed from supply or use, or subject to corrective action.
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Lida Daidaihua Slimming Capsules - consumer alert
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Consumers who have purchased this product are warned not to use it and to consult a medical practitioner if they have taken it and have concerns about their health.
Date:   Oct 2007
Title:   Media release - Consumer level recall of dental hygiene products
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Colgate-Palmolive Australia have announced a national recall, to consumer level of all batches of the following products: Colgate Periogard Clorohex Antiseptic Mouth Rinse, Colgate Periogard Clorohex Antiseptic Mouth Gel, Colgate Periogard Clorohex Forte Antiseptic Mouth Gel
Date:   Sep 2004
Title:   Product recalls
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to consumer-level product recall notices issued by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Media release - TGA alert on a consumer level recall of a complementary medicine - Nature's Own Zinc + B6 Magnesium
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), advises consumers that Mayne Consumer Products is conducting a consumer level recall of some batches of its product Nature's Own Zinc + B6 Magnesium.
Date:   May 2004
Title:   Updated advice on recall of blood-thinning medicine - Clexane (enoxaparin)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australia's medicines regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has recalled five batches of the anticoagulant (blood-thinning) medicine Clexane (enoxaparin) due to the detection of an impurity in the affected batches.
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Pan Pharmaceuticals Limited - Regulatory action and product recall information
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has suspended the licence held by Pan Pharmaceuticals Limited of Sydney to manufacture medicines, for a period of six months with effect 28 April 2003, because of serious concerns about the quality and safety of products manufactured by the company.
Date:   Dec 2003
Title:   Media release - TGA recalls potentially unsafe eye drops
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australia's medicines watchdog, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has ordered a consumer level recall of an over the counter eye drop following spot checks by the TGA of the safety of eye drops in the market place picked up safety concerns with Eye-Lite Eye Drops, manufactured in Switzerland.
Date:   Sep 2004
Title:   Urgent safety advisory on use of heparin products
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Urgent safety advisory on use of heparin products.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Media release. Prudent measures to conserve anti-coagulant medicines
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Guidelines for clinicians on prudent measures to manage a potential shortage of anti-coagulant medicines containing the blood thinning agent, heparin, have been issued.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Phenylpropanolamine
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Australian consumers may be worried about reports that the US Food and Drug Administration was taking steps to remove phenylpropanolamine from all drug products. In Australia, substantial action to limit the availability of many of the products of concern to the US FDA was taken in 1983.
Date:   Mar 2006
Title:   Uniform recall procedure for therapeutic goods (URPTG)
Publisher:   Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care
Description:   The Uniform Recall Procedure for Therapeutic Goods defines the action to be taken by health authorities and sponsors when therapeutic goods for use in humans, for reasons relating to their quality, safety or efficacy, are to be removed from supply or use, or subject to corrective action.
Date:   Sep 2008
Title:   Heparin products - safety alerts & advisory statements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to alerts and advisory statements about products containing heparin
Date:   Jul 2008
Title:   Report a problem with a therapeutic product
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to forms and information for reporting problems with therapeutic goods in Australia.
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Kava fact sheet - April 2005
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Since 2001, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has closely followed mounting international concerns over reports of hepatotoxicity and deaths from liver failure associated with taking some kava-containing medicines.
Date:   Apr 2005
Title:   Safety alerts and advisory statements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to safety alerts and advisory statements about medicines and medical devices in Australia.
Date:   Dec 2008
Title:   Withdrawal of Cerivastatin
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Information for Australians on the withdrawal of cerivastatin
Date:   Aug 2001
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