Australian Drug Evaluation Committee

ADEC provides advice to the Minister for Health and Ageing and the Secretary of the Department of Health on:

quality, risk-benefit, effectiveness and accessibility of drugs referred to ADEC for evaluation

medical and scientific evaluations of applications for registration of new drugs

An important role of ADEC is the classification of drugs in Australia into Pregnancy Categories .

There two main subcommittees of ADEC which are responsible for specific aspects of drug regulation in Australia:

the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC);

the Pharmaceutical Subcommittee – which makes recommendations to ADEC on the Pharmaceutical aspects ( Chemistry , Quality Control , Pharmacokinetics , etc) of drugs proposed for registration

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