isotretinoin
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.
8 product records on the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods, listed in full below. The TGA last updated this information on 22 December 2025. 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.
isotretinoin is subsidised on the PBS. The active ingredient is on the current Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, so it is a medicine dispensed under subsidy across Australia rather than one supplied through a narrower route. That is a fact about how widely it is used, not a rating of how serious this shortage is — the TGA's own impact rating above is the only severity statement on this page, and this does not change it.
A PBS listing is recorded against the active ingredient, while a shortage is usually reported against particular brands, strengths or pack sizes. So a subsidised alternative brand of the same ingredient may still be available even where a shortage is open. Your pharmacist can tell you what is in stock and can discuss substitutions with your prescriber.
Source: Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), © Commonwealth of Australia. Data used and redistributed under permission; not modified from its original wording where displayed verbatim.
Products affected
ISOTRETINOIN Gx isotretinoin 20mg capsule blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 240733
- 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
- 8 January 2026 The TGA's dates span 8 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 31 August 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 19 December 2025
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.
ISOTRETINOIN-WGR isotretinoin 10mg capsule - soft blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 432371
- 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
- 1 December 2025 The TGA's dates span 22 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 8 October 2027 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 21 October 2025
What the TGA says is being done
An alternative brand is available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
ISOTRETINOIN LUPIN isotretinoin 20 mg capsule blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 324226
- 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
- 5 November 2025 The TGA's dates span 12 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 30 October 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 22 December 2025
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.
ISOTRETINOIN-WGR isotretinoin 20mg capsule blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 432370
- 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
- 21 October 2025 The TGA's dates span 2 years.
- Expected to be resolved
- 8 October 2027 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 21 October 2025
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.
ISOTRETINOIN Gx isotretinoin 10mg capsule blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 240732
- 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
- 27 July 2025 The TGA's dates span 16 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 30 November 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 3 July 2025
APO-ISOTRETINOIN isotretinoin 20mg capsule blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 190941
- 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
- 11 July 2025 The TGA's dates span 17 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 25 December 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 22 June 2025
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.
ISOTRETINOIN LUPIN isotretinoin 10 mg capsule blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 324225
- 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
- 27 May 2025 The TGA's dates span 17 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 30 October 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 5 June 2025
What the TGA says is being done
An alternative brand is available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
APO-ISOTRETINOIN isotretinoin 10mg capsule - soft blister pack
Capsule, soft · ARTG 190940
- 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
- 28 March 2025 The TGA's dates span 21 months.
- Expected to be resolved
- 25 December 2026 This is the date the supplier has given the TGA. It can move.
- TGA last updated
- 11 March 2025
What the TGA says is being done
An alternative brand is available.
Quoted from the TGA's own record for this product. Voxsanity has not edited, summarised or interpreted it.
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.
To read the TGA's own entry for isotretinoin, open the TGA Medicine Shortage Reports Database and type isotretinoin into its filter box. The TGA's register has no direct link to an individual medicine, so this is the closest link that exists. General information about medicine shortages is on the TGA's medicine shortages page.
Voxsanity last read the register on 18 August 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.