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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/036

Medicine Supply Notification: Locorten Vioform® (flumetasone/clioquinol) 0.02% w/v / 1% w/v ear drops solution - Updated

MSN/2021/036 Tier 2 · medium · issued 21 Jul 2021

Reference
MSN/2021/036
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
21 Jul 2021
Expected back
April 2022 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 06 Jun 2023 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

Presentations, as stated

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PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Locorten Vioform® (flumetasone/clioquinol) 0.02% w/v / 1% w/v ear dropsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedApril 2022precision: a month · window end 30 Apr 2022, derived from “April 2022”notice of 21 Jul 2021
Alternative topical combination steroid and antibacterial preparations for the earclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 21 Jul 2021

What changed

  1. 21 Jul 2021Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 21 Jul 2021Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
06 Jun 2023 10:38 UTC (Internet Archive capture)
the earliest capture we hold is the Internet Archive's, not first-hand
Capture route
Recovered from the Internet Archive — not first-hand capture
Read from
Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at
06 Jun 2023 10:38 UTC
Content hash
4e58d956cb27efc810d7d93aec22abc469f29aef0a98b0d2150cf991d657fed5
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document
https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-locorten-vioform-flumetasone-clioquinol-0-02-w-v-1-w-v-ear-drops-solution ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20230606103834id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-locorten-vioform-flumetasone-clioquinol-0-02-w-v-1-w-v-ear-drops-solution ↗
Parser version
3
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