For brands selling into Australia
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Australia behaves least like every other market on this site. The Therapeutic Goods Administration works from closed lists made by legislative determination: one names the ingredients that are permissible and what each may be used for, the other names the indications that may be used and the evidence each one needs. You do not write a claim and then defend it. You take one from the determination, or you do not make it. The Hive mirrors both instruments under CC BY 4.0 — and if a determination has been repealed and replaced, the import fails loudly rather than serving you a rule that is no longer in force.
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What is actually in there
Both TGA determinations, mirrored from the Federal Register of Legislation, and the registers of every other market an Australian brand sells into. The Australian pair sit first because in this market they are not reference material, they are the boundary of what is possible.
Federal Register of Legislation, CC BY 4.0
Each instrument is pinned by its identifier and checked against the Register before an import runs. A replacement determination gets a new identifier, so an instrument silently going out of force is exactly the failure this design exists to prevent: the import stops and says so instead of loading a repealed rule.
over 9,000 entries across these sources, every one of them attributed.
over 5,000
permissible ingredients for the Australian market
Therapeutic Goods Administration · CC BY 4.0
The closed list of what may be used at all, each entry carrying its purpose and any specific requirements attached to it. If it is not there, it is not a formulation question, it is a no.
over 1,000
permitted indications for the Australian market
Therapeutic Goods Administration · CC BY 4.0
The closed list of what may be said, each indication carrying the type of evidence it requires and the requirements attached to it.
Mirrored
European health claim entries, permitted and not permitted
European Commission register, on EFSA opinions · CC BY 4.0
The first register most Australian exporters need, and a different model again: authorised wordings with conditions of use, plus published refusals.
over 1,300
GRAS notices for the United States
US Food and Drug Administration · public domain
Where an ingredient’s American safety standing is usually established.
over 1,300
new dietary ingredient notifications for the United States
US Food and Drug Administration · public domain
And the notification route for anything newer than the 1994 cutoff American law works from.
over 1,000
Proposition 65 listed chemicals for California
California OEHHA · source terms apply
Californian, additional to everything federal, and often triggered by contamination rather than by your ingredient list.
Figures are stated as "over" because a determination is remade and the numbers move with it. The European claim register is shown as mirrored rather than counted: its row count is not settled enough internally to publish. The Hive also holds the Great Britain claim register, novel food status and further national datasets that are not counted above.
The local part
Almost all of it comes from one difference: in Australia the lists are closed. A market that lets you argue rewards a good argument. A market that hands you a list does not.
Each permissible ingredient carries a purpose and, frequently, specific requirements. Finding your ingredient on the list is the beginning of the check and not the end of it, because the entry may permit it for something other than what you intend.
Permitted indications are set out in a determination, each with the type of evidence it requires and the requirements attached. Marketing copy that reads beautifully and matches no indication is not a strong claim weakly worded. It is a claim you are not permitted to make.
These lists live in legislation that gets remade. When it is remade the new instrument carries a new identifier, and anything pinned to the old one is pinned to something no longer in force. A rule you checked carefully last year can be a rule that has since been repealed.
An authorised EU or GB health claim has no standing in the Australian system, and an Australian permitted indication has no standing in theirs. They are not translations of one another. They are different instruments answering different questions.
The counts are on this page and they are not numbers anybody holds in their head — and both instruments move. The people most likely to be caught are the ones confident they already know what is on the list. It is a search problem, which is precisely why it lives in the Hive rather than in a folder.
Inside the Hive
Eight tools, each built against a specific mistake. For an Australian brand the register tools do the heavy lifting, because in a closed-list market the question is nearly always "is it on the list, and on what terms".
Closes Mistakes 01 and 02
Search the health claim register by ingredient, by claim or by body system. You see the exact permitted wording, the conditions of use including the dose the claim requires, and the entries that are recorded as not permitted. Its job is to let you rule a claim in or out before a designer ever sets it in type.
Closes Mistake 03
The requirements for each market you are considering, in one place: what has to be notified, what is restricted, what a label has to carry. It answers "can this formulation be sold there" at the point the question is still cheap to ask.
Closes Mistake 05
Regulatory alerts and recall notices, filtered to the categories that apply to you. This is the one that runs while you are not looking, and it is on every account including the free one, because an alert that only reaches paying customers is not a safety system.
Closes Mistakes 01, 02 and 04
Ask a regulatory question in plain English and get an answer grounded in the register, with the entry it came from shown alongside it. It will tell you what the register says. It will not tell you what to do, and every answer carries its source so you can check it yourself.
Closes The mistake of not being able to prove it later
Every signed order, set of terms, specification and certificate filed under your account and retrievable by you. When a retailer asks for documentation in eighteen months, or the person who emailed it to you has moved on, it is still there.
Closes The mistake of claiming what you have not verified
Scan a label, see which accredited tests match the ingredients, see the price on screen, send it in. Results and certificates file straight back into your Vault. Free accounts get five per cent off testing, Hive Plus seven and a half, Hive Pro ten.
Closes Mistake 02, at the last possible moment to catch it
Artwork approval runs inside the Hive with the claim register alongside it, so the words on the label can be checked against their authorised wording before the file goes to plate. Approvals and uploads are on the free account. Design and compliance services are priced separately, per project.
Closes The mistake of not asking
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Straight answers
These are answers about how the rules work and what the Hive shows you. They are not advice about your product, and nothing here replaces your own regulatory or legal counsel.
Permitted indications are the claims that may be used, set out in a legislative determination made by the Therapeutic Goods Administration, each with the type of evidence it requires and any requirements attached to it.
The important consequence is that the wording is chosen rather than composed. The Hive mirrors the determination under CC BY 4.0 so you can search the indications, see what each one demands of you, and settle the wording before it reaches a designer.
It is the legislative instrument that lists the ingredients permissible for use, each with its purpose and any specific requirements attached to it.
Because the list is closed, an ingredient that is absent is not a borderline case to be argued. The Hive holds the determination so a formulation can be checked against it early, when changing it is still a conversation rather than a write-off.
Check the instrument, not the copy — a replaced determination carries a new identifier, and the old one stops being the rule.
This is the failure mode the Hive is built against here. Each instrument is pinned and checked against the Federal Register of Legislation before an import runs, and if it is no longer in force the import fails and says so rather than quietly loading a repealed list. Every answer carries the source and the date it was checked.
No. An authorised European or British health claim has no standing in the Australian system, which works from its own permitted indications.
They are different regimes answering different questions, not translations of each other, so a claim has to be found again in the Australian determination. The Hive holds all of these registers on one account, which is the point: the answer changes per market, and so should the entry you are reading.
From the Federal Register of Legislation, under CC BY 4.0, harvested directly from the published text of the determinations themselves.
There is no embedded snapshot standing in for the live source, deliberately: a partial snapshot of a register this size would be either an invented subset or a fork of the law. If the harvest fails, the run is recorded as failed and nothing is imported.
A closed list is the kindest kind of rule, because it is knowable in an afternoon. It is only brutal to the people who assumed and to the people reading last year’s instrument.
