The TGA’s "light touch" approach to regulating alternative therapies has been a failure, with an audit finding high levels of false claims under the system based on self regulation.
In a review (http://www.anao.gov.au/Publications/Audit-Reports/2011-2012/Therapeutic-Goods-Regulation-Complementary-Medicines) of the system that oversees the 10,000 complementary medicines deemed to be relatively low risk, the Australian National Audit Office concluded that the self assessment system used to preserve "ease of market access" meant that "regulation of complementary medicines has been of limited effectiveness."
Its audit noted that the TGA’s own reviews had found that up to 90% of complementary products were non-compliant with regulatory requirements and that advertisements making misleading therapeutic...
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