Seller University Oct 2: Restricted Products, Pet Supplies, and OTC Medications Updated Oct 1 — Pet Healthcare Product Requirements Published Oct 1

On the morning of Oct 2, 2026, Get Live checked US TikTok Shop Seller University (TikTok Shop Academy), For Sellers. Latest policies rotated to four health-and-catalog cards, all carrying an Oct 1 date on the hub. Latest courses did not rotate. The policy lead is Restricted Products Policy, labeled Updated Oct 1, 2026. A new title, Pet Healthcare Product Requirements, is labeled Published Oct 1, 2026.

This post is for brands that pay for TikTok Shop operations: founders, e-commerce leads, and whoever owns the shop's P&L. Restricted products, pet supplies, pet healthcare, and human OTC medications are catalog and compliance work. The courses that stayed on the hub sit with catalog, finance, affiliate ops, and the October live calendar. None of that is a creator manager working from a title alone.

Latest policies, top four

1. Restricted Products Policy — Updated Oct 1, 2026. On the Oct 1 watch the same title was #3, labeled Updated Sep 30, 2026, and that essay was not opened.
2. Pet Supplies Requirements — Updated Oct 1, 2026. Our Sep 28 post read this title in full when the hub label was Updated Sep 28, 2026.
3. Pet Healthcare Product Requirements — Published Oct 1, 2026. New to the visible policy top four in this series. The hub line says Published, not Updated.
4. Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications Requirements — Updated Oct 1, 2026. New to the visible policy top four in this series.

Latest courses, still listed — unchanged

The course slate did not rotate. This watch still lists the same four titles the Oct 1 post recorded, in that order. We did not open the course essays. The morning note prints an Updated line for two of them. It does not print a new Updated line for the other two.

1. HSA/FSA Feature and Seller Guide — still listed. The Oct 1 watch recorded Updated Sep 30, 2026. This morning's note does not supply a new date. Essay not opened on either watch.
2. 2026 October GMV Sprint — still listed. The Oct 1 watch recorded Updated Sep 30, 2026. This morning's note does not supply a new date. Essay not opened.
3. Sales Accelerator SKPP to Bestsellers — Updated Sep 30, 2026. The Oct 1 watch recorded the longer hub title Sales Accelerator: Grow from Strategic Key Products (SKPP) to Bestsellers, also Updated Sep 30. Essay not opened.
4. Targeted Collaboration Playbook — Updated Sep 29, 2026. The Oct 1 watch recorded the longer visible title through “How Bonus Invitations Work,” also Updated Sep 29. Essay not opened.

Compared with the Oct 1 policy top four, three cards are not in today's recorded top four: Brand Authorization Requirements for LIVE Auctions, Medical Devices and Medical Supplies Requirements, and Creator Bind Eligibility and Requirements. Restricted Products Policy stayed, and moved from #3 to #1, with the hub label moving from Updated Sep 30 to Updated Oct 1. A card leaving the top slots means Academy is surfacing something else. It does not mean the older document was withdrawn.

HSA/FSA Feature and Seller Guide, 2026 October GMV Sprint, Sales Accelerator SKPP to Bestsellers, and Targeted Collaboration Playbook are still listed. This watch does not add course content. The only course dates it records are Updated Sep 30 for Sales Accelerator and Updated Sep 29 for the Targeted Collaboration Playbook.

HSA/FSA and the GMV Sprint keep the dates the Oct 1 post already logged (Updated Sep 30) until someone re-opens the live cards and copies a new label. That Oct 1 post did not expand HSA or FSA, and it did not state GMV Sprint prizes, targets, or enrollment. This post does not either. Our holiday prep guide is Get Live's own Q4 planning frame. It is not a summary of the GMV Sprint essay.

Sales Accelerator stays at the Updated Sep 30 label. The only expansion of SKPP this series uses is the one printed in the Oct 1 hub title: Strategic Key Products (SKPP). Rank and a repeated date do not define how a product becomes a Strategic Key Product. The Targeted Collaboration Playbook stays at Updated Sep 29. The Oct 1 capture is where the hub title was visible through “How Bonus Invitations Work.” Because that essay stayed closed, this post still does not describe creator targeting or bonus invitations. Our creator affiliate program guide is not a summary of that card.

Restricted Products Policy led Latest policies, labeled Updated Oct 1, 2026. The essay we opened prints 10/01/2026 under the title. On the Oct 1 watch the hub label was Updated Sep 30, 2026, and that essay was not opened. This post does not list restricted categories.

What the 10/01/2026 page does say, in its own words, is that sellers must meet qualification requirements and that there are three levels: category-level qualification (documentation for a category, applied in the Qualification Center), product-level qualification (documentation for each product), and invite-only qualification (selected sellers invited to sell certain categories, also through the Qualification Center). The same page says approval is not guaranteed and that TikTok Shop may request additional documentation during review or while a product is live. It points category qualification to Your Guide to Category Qualification, and enforcement to the Seller Enforcement Policy.

The page's “Products Requiring Qualification” section is a table of product groups that link to category policies. Those links include Pet Healthcare, Pet Supplies, Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications, and Medical Devices and Medical Supplies. The invite-only section on the same page includes, among other categories, the phrases “Over-the-Counter Medications” and “Pet Healthcare and Frozen Food.” That second phrase is one bullet on the page. We are not splitting it into two policies, and we are not pasting the rest of the table here. Open the essay and copy the row your SKU actually sits in.

Our Sep 28 post, while reading Pet Supplies, linked Restricted Products Policy and said that link was for reference and was not summarized there. Today we opened the policy. We still do not carry pet-food language from the Sep 28 read onto this policy, and we do not describe a line-by-line diff against a Sep 30 text we never opened. The new fact is the hub label and the essay date: Updated Oct 1 on the hub, 10/01/2026 on the page.

Pet Supplies Requirements was #2, labeled Updated Oct 1, 2026. The essay we opened prints 10/01/2026 under the title. It says it applies to all sellers, including manufacturers, importers, repackers, and resellers, and that pet supplies are also subject to the Restricted Products Policy. Sellers must comply with both when listing pet supplies.

The page says the pet supplies allowed through category qualification are Pet Food and Pet Supplements. It says that if a product makes disease or health-condition claims, it may be regulated as an animal drug and is prohibited. It sends electrical pet supplies (it names electric clippers, habitat lighting, hair dryers, and terrarium heat lamps) to Electronic Product Requirements. It sends pet healthcare products to Pet Healthcare Product Requirements, and the examples it prints there are flea drops, non-prescription flea pills, flea collars for select brands, itch remedies, fly and mosquito control, and relaxants and anxiety relief.

That referral is the change a brand can brief without inventing a diff. Our Sep 28 post read Pet Supplies Requirements in full when those healthcare product types, and the document rules attached to them, were inside that essay. Today's Pet Supplies page points those examples at a different essay. We are not republishing the Sep 28 healthcare checklist as the current Pet Supplies page, and we are not claiming every pet-food or pet-supplement document line is unchanged. The Sep 28 section is the prior full read. Today's section is the 10/01/2026 page, including the pointer to the new essay. Re-open both before a listing decision.

Pet Healthcare Product Requirements was #3, labeled Published Oct 1, 2026. The hub line says Published, not Updated. The essay we opened prints 10/01/2026 under the title. It was not in the visible policy top four on the Oct 1 watch. It is a different URL from Pet Supplies Requirements.

The page says certain non-prescription pet healthcare products may be offered by invite-only sellers who are brand owners, manufacturers, or authorized resellers, and that the section applies only to the product types it lists. It says that section does not allow prescription products, veterinary medications, vaccines, medicated food, or veterinary medical equipment. The product types it lists as eligible non-prescription products that may be included are flea drops, non-prescription flea pills, flea collars for select brands, itch remedies, fly and mosquito control, and relaxants and anxiety relief.

The same page splits documents by regulator, and it names the product types under each split. EPA-regulated products on the page are flea drops, flea collars for selected brands only, and fly and mosquito control. For manufacturers and brand owners it lists an EPA Registration Number (submitted as a product attribute), an EPA Establishment Number, label images showing both numbers, a Certificate of Analysis or test report, and a compliance attestation. For authorized resellers it lists proof of purchase (an invoice), label images showing both numbers, and a brand authorization letter. FDA-regulated / OTC pet healthcare products on the page are non-prescription flea pills, itch remedies, and relaxants and anxiety relief. For manufacturers and brand owners it lists proof of FDA facility registration, a cGMP certificate, a Certificate of Analysis or test report, and product label images (all sides) showing required safety warnings. For authorized resellers it lists an invoice, those label images, and a brand authorization letter.

The page also says sellers must comply with both this document and the Restricted Products Policy when listing pet healthcare products. It has its own prohibited-products section and a general listing-requirements section. Those sections are longer than this paragraph. Copy them from the essay onto the ticket. Do not treat the Sep 28 Pet Supplies summary as a substitute: that summary did not call out an EPA Establishment Number as its own manufacturer bullet. Today's Pet Healthcare page does. That is a difference between our earlier summary and this page, not a line-by-line archive of the Sep 28 essay. Open the live page before anyone builds a document checklist.

This is not veterinary advice, and it is not a determination that a SKU you sell is invite-only, EPA-regulated, FDA-regulated, or prohibited. The phrase “may include” is the page's. Qualification still runs through the path that page describes, and through Restricted Products Policy.

Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications Requirements was #4, labeled Updated Oct 1, 2026. The essay we opened prints 10/01/2026 under the title. It was new to the visible policy top four in this series. We had not logged this title on the Oct 1 watch.

The page's key points, as printed on the essay dated 10/01/2026, are three sentences. Sellers must meet eligibility requirements to offer products in the category, and the page says to contact an Account Manager to learn more. Sellers must follow applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations, FDA labeling requirements, and any relevant DEA rules. Toddler OTC Medications are a High Risk subcategory with additional requirements, and the page points to its own Toddler OTC Medications section. The essay also says OTC medications are subject to the Restricted Products Policy, that sellers must meet both documents, and that sellers who do not meet eligibility are prohibited from listing or selling OTC medications. It says sellers will be notified if they become eligible.

This post stops there on purpose. The essay continues into permitted product types, prohibited ingredients, concentration and quantity limits, documentation, and other rules. Copying a partial list into a news post would read like a compliance sheet and would go stale the next time Academy edits a bullet. Catalog and regulatory should open the live essay, save the 10/01/2026 date, and attach the sections that name products you actually sell. Keep that ticket apart from Pet Healthcare Product Requirements. That page uses “OTC” for certain pet products. This page is human Over-the-Counter medications. A shared abbreviation is not a shared document. Keep it apart from HSA/FSA Feature and Seller Guide and from Medical Devices and Medical Supplies Requirements. Those are different titles, logged on the Oct 1 post as titles and dates only.

This page is not medical advice and not a determination that any SKU is eligible.

The Oct 1 post is the log for the cards that led the hub then. Use it for the labels we recorded. Open the live essays before you brief from the titles. Three of those policy cards are not in today's recorded top four. The course top four did not drop a card.

• Brand Authorization Requirements for LIVE Auctions — Latest policies #1 on Oct 1, labeled Published on Oct 1, 2026. Essay not opened then, and not opened on this watch. It dropped out of the policy top four. That is a queue change, not a statement that the document was withdrawn, and not a merge with LIVE Auction: Requirements & Guidelines, LIVE Auction Requirements, the 26Q4 referral-fee policy, or Requirements for Brand Authorization. Our live selling guide is not a summary of any of those cards.
• Medical Devices and Medical Supplies Requirements — Latest policies #2 on Oct 1, labeled Updated Sep 30, 2026. Essay not opened. It is not in today's policy top four. The Oct 1 post is the coverage for that title. Today's Restricted Products essay links to a Medical Devices and Medical Supplies policy. That link is not a substitute for opening the medical-device essay, and it is not HSA/FSA Feature and Seller Guide, which is still a course title.
• Creator Bind Eligibility and Requirements — Latest policies #4 on Oct 1, labeled Updated Sep 30, 2026. Essay not opened. It is not in today's policy top four. The Oct 1 post is the first log of that title in the visible top four, and the Sep 30 post is the watch before that.

Today's four policy essays were opened. The course essays were not. The links below are earlier titles that share words with today's hub and are easy to collapse into one Slack thread. Use them for the text we verified, or for the title-and-date log we actually wrote.

• Sep 28 — Pet Supplies Requirements, read in full, including the healthcare product types that lived in that essay then. Today's Pet Supplies page points those examples to Pet Healthcare Product Requirements. Do not paste the Sep 28 healthcare bullets onto today's Pet Supplies ticket.
• Oct 1 — HSA/FSA Feature and Seller Guide and Medical Devices and Medical Supplies Requirements, titles and dates only. Essays not opened. HSA/FSA is still listed as a course. Medical Devices left the policy top four. Neither is today's OTC essay, and neither is Pet Healthcare Product Requirements.
• Oct 1 — Brand Authorization Requirements for LIVE Auctions, titles and dates only. Dropped out of the policy top four. Essay not opened.
• Oct 1 — Restricted Products Policy, hub label Updated Sep 30, essay not opened on that watch. Today's section is the 10/01/2026 essay. The Oct 1 section is the prior hub log only.
• Sep 30 — 2026 October GMV Sprint, Sales Accelerator (SKPP), and the Sep 29 course slate, titles and dates. Those course essays were not opened. They are still not opened today.

• We will claim: the four Latest policy rows above, with the Updated or Published lines from this morning's watch; that we opened those four essays and each article date reads 10/01/2026; the qualification levels, category-policy links, and invite-only phrases quoted from Restricted Products Policy; the Pet Food / Pet Supplements lines and the healthcare referral quoted from Pet Supplies Requirements; the invite-only scope, product types, and EPA versus FDA document names quoted from Pet Healthcare Product Requirements; the three key points quoted from Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications Requirements; that the four course titles are still listed, with Updated dates only where this watch printed them; and the comparison to the Oct 1 top fours, including which policy cards left.
• We will not claim: a full restricted-category table or a full invite-only list; that every pet-food or pet-supplement document line is unchanged since Sep 28; a line-by-line diff of Pet Healthcare against the Sep 28 Pet Supplies essay; any OTC permitted-product list, concentration, quantity cap, state rule, or document checklist; an expansion of HSA or FSA; GMV Sprint prizes; SKPP rules; how bonus invitations work; medical-device requirements; LIVE Auction brand-authorization rules; or creator-bind eligibility.

• Re-open Seller University and confirm both lists match this watch before anyone briefs from this post.
• Open Restricted Products Policy. Hub label Updated Oct 1. Essay date 10/01/2026. Copy the qualification row for the category you sell. Do not brief from a partial table.
• Open Pet Supplies Requirements. Hub label Updated Oct 1. Essay date 10/01/2026. Use the Sep 28 post as the prior full read, then re-read pet food and pet supplements on the live page. Healthcare product examples on today's page point to Pet Healthcare Product Requirements.
• Open Pet Healthcare Product Requirements. Hub line Published Oct 1. Essay date 10/01/2026. Keep it on its own ticket. Copy EPA and FDA document lines from the essay, not from the Sep 28 Pet Supplies summary.
• Open Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications Requirements. Hub label Updated Oct 1. Essay date 10/01/2026. Copy permitted products and documents only from the essay. This post does not list them. Keep the ticket apart from pet healthcare and from HSA/FSA.
• Leave the course essays on the Oct 1 log until someone opens them. Sales Accelerator is still Updated Sep 30. Targeted Collaboration Playbook is still Updated Sep 29. HSA/FSA and the GMV Sprint have no new date on this watch.
• Use the Oct 1 post for cards that left the policy top four: Brand Authorization Requirements for LIVE Auctions, Medical Devices and Medical Supplies Requirements, and Creator Bind Eligibility and Requirements. Then re-open any of those cards a decision still depends on.
• Log the Published or Updated date next to every ticket.

Get Live runs TikTok Shop for brands, including live selling and creator programs. We read Seller University so a hub rotation becomes dated tasks with an owner: a restricted-products card opened before anyone lists a category, a pet-supplies card kept apart from the new pet healthcare essay, an OTC card opened before anyone states what a human medication listing may say, and an October course slate left alone when the hub says it did not move. We quote TikTok's documents when we have opened them, and we stop where the essay is longer than a watch log should carry. We do not publish client results. If you'd rather have a team own this for your shop, you can hire Get Live to run it.

• TikTok Shop Academy / US Seller University hub: https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university (For Sellers, morning watch Oct 2, 2026).
• Restricted Products Policy, article date 10/01/2026: https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=3238037484275457&lang=en
• Pet Supplies Requirements, article date 10/01/2026: https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=5166793187346222&lang=en
• Pet Healthcare Product Requirements, article date 10/01/2026: https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=8617713752950548&lang=en
• Over-the-Counter (OTC) Medications Requirements, article date 10/01/2026: https://seller-us.tiktok.com/university/essay?knowledge_id=7670153270281998&lang=en
• Previous Get Live watch, titles and dates only: Oct 1, 2026 (Brand Authorization Requirements for LIVE Auctions, Published on Oct 1; HSA/FSA Feature and Seller Guide and Medical Devices and Medical Supplies Requirements; Restricted Products Policy labeled Updated Sep 30, essay not opened; Creator Bind Eligibility and Requirements). Course essays on that watch were not opened.
• Earlier Pet Supplies read, in full: Sep 28, 2026. That essay, as read then, included pet-healthcare product types. Today's Pet Supplies page points those examples to Pet Healthcare Product Requirements.
• Earlier course labels, essays not opened: Sep 30 and Sep 29.

Disclosure: Get Live is a US TikTok Shop agency writing for brand operators. TikTok Shop Academy content and Seller Center can change without notice. This post reports the Oct 2, 2026 hub titles and dates, plus what the four policy essays dated 10/01/2026 said when we opened them. It does not summarize course essays we did not open, and it does not reprint OTC product lists or the restricted-products table. Sections that tell you which team should open a card are our suggestions, not TikTok policy. This page is not medical, veterinary, tax, or compliance advice. Verify on the live Academy before you change listings, pet or healthcare catalog, OTC listings, HSA/FSA settings, LIVE Auction brand authorization, or creator-account binding.