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The pregnancy category of a medication is an assessment of the risk of fetal injury due to the pharmaceutical, if it is used as directed by the mother during pregnancy. It does not include any risks conferred by pharmaceutical agents or their metabolites in breast milk. Every drug has specific information listed in its product literature.
This ruling has removed the requirement of stating pregnancy categories in prescription drug labels. [99] Australia's categorization system takes into account birth defects, the effects around birth or when the mother gives birth, and problems that will arise later in the child's life due to the drug taken. The system places them into a ...
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An important role of ADEC was the classification of drugs in Australia into pregnancy categories. The two main subcommittees of ADEC which were responsible for specific aspects of drug regulation in Australia: the Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC) (replaced in 2010 by the separate Advisory Committee on the Safety of Medicines ...
Category should be empty, note that one can always use any-text input in |pregnancy_AU_comment=, |pregnancy_US_comment=. This template is used on many pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's or subpages, or in your own user subpage .
The FDA pregnancy classification is removed from this infobox, and does not show any more. By FDA, it is replaced by the Pregnancy and Lactation Labeling Rule (PLLR) of December 2014. The PLLR is descriptive, and not suitable for this infobox.
The general information about the drug other literature documenting studies related to the drug and breastfeeding. The duration of the drug therapy. Is the drug short-acting? A short-acting form of the drug may be a better choice for a breastfeeding mother rather than a longer-acting form that stays in the mother's system for a longer period.
Pregnancy categories are no longer used in the US. Note the UK does not have official designated categorisations, but has both a variety of standard phrases with explanatory qualifications, plus many individual descriptions. The generic |pregnancy_category= accepts any text, and may be used with such country-specific information (non AU or US).