Checking Product Bans in Australia

There isn't one Australian list of banned products. Which register you check depends on what the product is: a consumer good, an industrial chemical, a poison or medicine, an agvet chemical, or something stopped at the border. For each one, you look the product or its ingredients up by name or CAS number, and then read the conditions attached to the entry, because many entries carry exceptions.

Where to check, by product type

Product type	Where to look	What an entry tells you
Consumer goods	Product Safety Australia's ban register (permanent and interim bans), plus mandatory safety and information standards	A ban defines the goods it covers. For example, the permanent ban on tongue studs without holes covers "a small bead with an opening on one side only, which acts to create a vacuum" worn on the tongue without piercing. It is linked to Consumer Protection Notice No. 18 of 2010 (Federal Register F2010L03300). [1]
Industrial chemicals (and articles containing them)	DCCEEW's IChEMS Register, Schedule 7	Import, manufacture and end use are "prohibited except" in listed cases. Hexachlorobutadiene (CAS 87-68-3) is one example, in force from 1 July 2023. The exceptions are unintentional trace presence, research or laboratory use, a hazardous waste permit, and, for articles only, articles already in use on or before 1 July 2023. [2]
Industrial chemicals crossing the border	The AICIS banned or restricted chemicals list (chemicals covered by the Rotterdam and Minamata Conventions)	Some chemicals need prior AICIS authorisation rather than being banned outright. Tributyl tin compounds are "subject to import conditions - must apply for authorisation." [3] For mercury, import authorisation applies only when importing from a non-Party to the Minamata Convention, but export authorisation applies to every destination. [4]
Poisons, medicines, cosmetic and household chemicals	The current Poisons Standard, Schedule 10	The current instrument is the Poisons Standard June 2026, which commenced on 1 June 2026. Schedule 10 covers substances whose supply and use are prohibited "for the purpose or purposes listed for each poison." Appendix C is now "intentionally blank" and points to Schedule 10, so older guidance that cites Appendix C is out of date. (Federal Register of Legislation, F2026L00633)
Therapeutic goods	The TGA's ARTG (Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods)	Search by product name or ARTG ID and read the licence status of the entry.
Pesticides and veterinary chemicals	APVMA cancellation and suspension notices, and the APVMA Gazette	Shows whether a product's registration or approval number has been cancelled or suspended.
Imports at the border	Schedule 1 of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, administered by the ABF (Australian Border Force)	The scope changes over time. From 22 January 2026, violent extremist material and prohibited symbols became objectionable goods under regulation 4A, which the ABF can seize. (ABF Customs Notice 2026/03)

Practical sequence

1. Check the finished product against Product Safety Australia's bans and mandatory standards.
2. Check each ingredient by CAS number against IChEMS Schedule 7, Poisons Standard Schedule 10 and the AICIS import and export list.
3. If it is a therapeutic or agvet product, check its ARTG or APVMA status.
4. If you are importing, check the ABF prohibited and restricted goods list.

I couldn't open the full Product Safety Australia ban register (productsafety.gov.au) this time. Only its clothing and fashion accessories category is in the datasets I can search, so I can't confirm the full set of current bans from here.

Approach: I searched the Product Safety Australia ban register, the IChEMS Register, the AICIS banned or restricted chemicals list, APVMA cancellation records and the ARTG, and opened the current Poisons Standard and ABF notice on official sites. The Poisons Standard versions in the datasets are only repealed historical snapshots, so I used the current instrument on the Federal Register of Legislation.

If you send me the product name or ingredient CAS numbers, I can run them against all of these registers.