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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/051

Medicine Supply Notification: Acebutolol (Sectral® )100mg and 200mg capsules and 400mg tablets

MSN/2021/051 ⚠ Tier 2 · medium · issued 17 Aug 2022

Acebutolol has been notified short 2 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2021/051 ⚠ source reference anomaly — preserved, not corrected
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
17 Aug 2022
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 15 Oct 2024 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 17 Aug 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 17 Aug 2022Product discontinuedsource post

Provenance

Where this record's bytes came from and when they entered the record. The same fields ship with every API record (/api), so a citation can be checked against the capture. Internet-Archive recoveries are dated by the Archive's capture, never ours.

post:6ff5d61056ce

Recorded
15 Oct 2024 07:08 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
15 Oct 2024 07:08 UTC
Content hash
7f6829199e0efebf94cf98ff452ca87531b81afcb2fce29eb4a399e90565645e
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-acebutolol-sectral-100mg-and-200mg-capsules-and-400mg-tablets ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20241015070842id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-acebutolol-sectral-100mg-and-200mg-capsules-and-400mg-tablets ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • ref year 2021 != issue year 2022 (MSN/2021/051)
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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