Is your product a food or a medicine?
In Australia the answer turns mostly on how a product is presented — not on what is in it. A moisturiser and a therapeutic good can share an ingredient list and sit under different Acts.
Answer four questions and see the provision that applies to yours, quoted from the instrument it comes from.
Open the tool →Free. No card. Readiness guidance, not legal advice.
What it actually answers
It reads the instruments that decide the question — the Therapeutic Goods Act's own definition, the Declared Goods Order, the Excluded Goods Determinations — and tells you which one names goods like yours, in that instrument's own words.
- ⭐ The provision, quoted. Not a verdict in our words — the item, its citation, and the text it turns on.
- ⭐ What it depends on. Where an item applies only when a product is presented a certain way, it says so and shows the words.
- ⛔ What we could not check. An ingredient we do not hold is marked not established — which means we could not check it, never that it is permitted.
A worked example — illustrative only, not a live result
A moisturising cream containing sunscreen, presented “for daily hydration, SPF 30”.
The instrument that answers it
Therapeutic Goods (Excluded Goods) Determination 2018, Schedule 2 — moisturising skin care products containing sunscreen that are intended for dermal application…
⚠ This item's own words turn on an amount, so the quantity decides that limb. The tool says so where it applies rather than demanding a quantity from everyone.
Your own answer depends on your own words. This example is here to show the shape of the output, not to answer for any product.
What it will never do
⛔ It does not decide for you, and it is not legal advice. It quotes the instruments and shows you where your product sits against them. The decision — and the record of it — stays yours. Where the law depends on something only you can state, it says so and stops.