The Designated Drugs Regulation describing the therapeutic pharmaceutical agents (TPAs) to be authorized to the profession of optometry in Ontario was submitted to the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care on November 6, 2009. Once this regulation is approved, optometrists in Ontario who are in compliance with the College’s Therapeutic Pharmaceutical Agents Policy: Educational Requirements for Members to Prescribe Drugs (TPA Education Policy) will have the authority to prescribe the drugs identified in the Regulation.