The government recently published guidelines and regulations for the registration of complementary medicines. Public submissions were requested. Marcus Low has previously written about this for Quackdown. The Association for Responsible Health Information and Advertising (ARHIA) and the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) have both made submissions.

The Department of Health recently published draft regulations and guidelines governing complementary and alternative medicines (CAMs). We have not done an exhaustive analysis of the proposed changes. We are posting preliminary observations to spur discussion and public engagement with these important documents.