Adverse reports top 10k
May 30, 2014
The Therapeutic Goods
Administration (TGA) has released
via its website its first half yearly
performance report for Jul to Dec
2013, previously prepared for
the Therapeutic Goods Industry
Consultative Committee only, which
showed adverse medicine reaction
reports reached 10,098 during the
period.
This compared with 9,958
from the January to June 2013
period, and 8,264 from the July to
December 2012 period.
The TGA said this could reflect
action taken by the organisation to
encourage reporting from sponsors,
pharmacists, GPs and state/territory
health authorities, indicating a
greater awareness of the importance
of reporting these events.
The report also found that there
were no new applications received
for registered complementary
medicines during the period,
consistent with past reporting
periods.
Category three submissions
had been increasing over the last
12 months, the TGA said, with
submissions other than category
one, two or three having almost
doubled in that time.
305 medical device recalls during
the period, compared with an
average for a six month period over
the last three years of 256.
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