fentanyl citrate
Current shortage
The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
5 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 3 August 2026. Not medical advice.
The TGA does not publish a reason for a shortage, so Voxsanity cannot show one. Nothing on this page is an explanation of why supply is affected — that information is not in the source and is not inferred here.
This is national information. The TGA records shortages for Australia as a whole. There is no state, territory or pharmacy-level stock information in this data, and Voxsanity cannot tell you whether a particular pharmacy has a medicine in stock. Your pharmacist can.
Products affected
ACTIQ fentanyl 600microgram (as citrate) lozenge with integral applicator blister pack
Lozenge with integral application · ARTG 91601
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Current shortage The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 31 July 2026 The TGA's dates span 4 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 1 December 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 31 July 2026
What the TGA says is being done
The sponsor is working to expedite the next shipment. Other strengths are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
FENTORA fentanyl (as citrate) 200 microgram orally disintegrating tablet blister pack
Tablet, orally disintegrating · ARTG 218437
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- Status
- Current shortage The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 29 July 2026 The TGA's dates span 4 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 1 December 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 3 August 2026
What the TGA says is being done
The sponsor is working to expedite the next shipment . Other strengths are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
ACTIQ fentanyl 800microgram (as citrate) lozenge with integral applicator blister pack
Lozenge with integral application · ARTG 91602
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Current shortage The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 17 April 2026 The TGA's dates span 7 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 1 December 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 20 April 2026
What the TGA says is being done
The sponsor is working to expedite the next shipment. Other strengths are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
FENTORA fentanyl (as citrate) 600 microgram orally disintegrating tablet blister pack
Tablet, orally disintegrating · ARTG 218434
Read the TGA's own shortage record for this product
- Status
- Current shortage The TGA records this medicine as being in shortage now. A shortage often affects some brands, strengths or pack sizes and not others, so a supply of the medicine may still be available. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and what alternatives exist.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 18 March 2026 The TGA's dates span 8 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 1 December 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 1 April 2026
What the TGA says is being done
The sponsor is working to expedite the next shipment. Other strengths are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
B. BRAUN FENTANYL fentanyl (as citrate) 500 micrograms/10 mL solution for injection ampoule
Injection, solution · ARTG 227124
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- Status
- Discontinued The supplier has told the TGA it is permanently stopping supply of this product in Australia. This is not a temporary shortage. Other brands or strengths of the same medicine may still be available, and your doctor or pharmacist can advise on what to do next.
- Supply
- Unavailable The supplier reports no stock is available.
- TGA impact rating
- Low impact The TGA has assessed this shortage as low impact, meaning alternatives are generally available and most people can be managed without difficulty.
- Reported from
- 5 January 2026
- Expected to be resolved
- The TGA does not publish an end date for this record (it records "Unknown"). Voxsanity does not estimate one.
- TGA last updated
- 13 January 2026
What the TGA says is being done
Alternative brands are available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
Terms like ARTG, TGA and PBS are explained in the glossary.
Where this comes from
Source: Medicine Shortage Reports Database, Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), © Commonwealth of Australia, reproduced with permission. The TGA does not endorse Voxsanity, and nothing here is presented as a TGA view. Shortage information is free for everyone on this site, with no account and no subscription.
Every product listed above links to the TGA's own shortage record for that product. The TGA's register is organised by product rather than by medicine, so there is no single TGA page covering fentanyl citrate as a whole; to see them together, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type fentanyl citrate into its filter box. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.
Voxsanity last read the register on 16 October 2026.
Not medical advice. Voxsanity republishes public government health data in plain English. Speak to your pharmacist or doctor about your own medicines. Do not stop or change how you take a medicine because of anything on this page.