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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/045

Medicine Supply Notification: Metformin 500mg/5ml oral solution

MSN/2021/045 Tier 2 · medium · issued 13 Sep 2021

Reference
MSN/2021/045
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
13 Sep 2021
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 09 Dec 2023 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

Presentations, as stated

Each product line re-expressed as the product named, the status the source stated and its expected-back phrase kept as written — not the source's sentence, and not an observation of stock. Roles are inferred from phrasing.

PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Advanz Pharmaaffected product · inferred from phrasingDiscontinued, as stated— not stated for this linenotice of 13 Sep 2021
Metformin 850mg/5ml and 1000mg/5ml oral solutionsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 13 Sep 2021
Metformin 500mg powder for oral solution sugar freenamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 13 Sep 2021

What changed

  1. 13 Sep 2021Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 13 Sep 2021Product discontinuedsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
09 Dec 2023 19:16 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
09 Dec 2023 19:16 UTC
Content hash
21d67c0bbd63242201595b2902b6bbaa2a9ccef752165be59a601a7cacb6e649
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-metformin-500mg-5ml-oral-solution ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231209191635id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-metformin-500mg-5ml-oral-solution ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • multiple statuses on one line (['available_no_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_no_uplift' (source line omitted; see the source document)
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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