Today’s tech alert provides members with an interim update on the taxonomic name changes to Lactobacillus spp. and additional information, including:

– Update on future consultation for any mandatory name change for therapeutic goods;

– Potential options if sponsors wish to provide voluntary, additional information about changed names on labels for products containing Lactobacillus spp.; and

– A comparison list of Lactobacillus species on the ARTG with name changes according to Lactotox and EFSA.