Health Warnings

Follow the links below to find information about health warnings, including warnings about diseases, medicines, drugs, and products that might have adverse health consequences.

Reviewed August 2008

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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:   Aug 2008
Title:   Media releases on arbovirus and malaria related matters
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page provides a list of arbovirus and malaria related media releases.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Media release. Murray Valley Encephalitis
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Department of Health in South Australia today confirmed the presence of the mosquito-borne Murray Valley Encephalitis (MVE) in the Riverland.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   Media release. Food Ministers agree to a strategic vision for Australian and New Zealand food regulation system
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Health warnings on packaged alcohol and a draft standard on nutrition, health and related claims were discussed by the Australian and New Zealand Food Regulation Ministerial Council today.
Date:   May 2008
Title:   FAISD handbook: handbook of first aid instructions, safety directions, warning statements and general safety precautions for agricultural and veterinary chemicals
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   A consolidation of the First Aid Instructions, Warning Statements and General Safety Precautions applicable to Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals and Products, together with Safety Directions for those Products.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Media release. Mosquito-borne disease risk in the north of WA
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Department of Health in Western Australia today issued a warning to people living and holidaying in the north of Western Australia.
Date:   Mar 2008
Title:   Zolpidem ("Stilnox") - updated information - February 2008
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   As a response to these observed adverse effects, significant changes have been made to the Product Information (PI) and Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) documents for products containing zolpidem.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   Tobacco - Health warnings
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   From 1 March 2006 all tobacco products imported and manufactured for retail in Australia are to be printed with the new health warning labels. These new warnings provide smokers with information on an expanded range of health effects. In the case of cigarette packs, health warnings now occupy 30% of the front and 90% of the back of pack, with a graphic appearing on both front and back.
Date:   Dec 2007
Title:   SunSmart UV Alert
Publisher:   Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   The SunSmart UV Alert is reported daily in newspaper weather forecasts across Australia. The alert is used to raise public awareness of the risk of exposure to UV radiation and to encourage people to adopt appropriate sun protection measures.
Date:   Apr 2007
Title:   Review of Aspirin / Reye's syndrome warning statement
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   At its meeting on 3 April 2003, the Medicines Evaluation Committee agreed to re-examine the evidence linking aspirin use in children or teenagers with chicken pox, influenza or fever, with Reye's Syndrome, with a view to making further recommendations to the NDPSC about the advisability of adopting the UK warning statement.
Date:   Apr 2004
Title:   Medicine label advisory statements consultation document
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The TGA's Review of the Labelling Requirements for Medicines recommended that warning and advisory statements from various sources be consolidated into a single document. This consultation document proposes a method for implementing that recommendation and a process for ensuring the resulting document is maintained in an efficient and effective manner. The closing date for responses was Friday 13 December 2002.
Date:   Oct 2002
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