Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2021/055

Medicine Supply Notification: Lipitor® (Atorvastatin) 20mg chewable tablets

MSN/2021/055 Tier 2 · medium · issued 18 Nov 2021

Reference: MSN/2021/055
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 18 Nov 2021
Expected back: late December 2021 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 23 Jul 2024 — 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.

Presentation	Status, as stated	Expected back, as stated	Stated in
Lipitor® 20mg chewable tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	late December 2021precision: late in the month · window end 31 Dec 2021, derived from “late December 2021”	notice of 18 Nov 2021
Lipitor® 10mg chewable tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand	— not stated for this line	notice of 18 Nov 2021
Atorvastatin 20mg film-coated tablets alsonamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 18 Nov 2021

What changed

18 Nov 2021Supply notification issuedsource post
18 Nov 2021Expected backsource 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:2a818d8a1b2a

Recorded

23 Jul 2024 03:21 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

23 Jul 2024 03:21 UTC

Content hash

8d5cb2a2a83bf5e73100cc20106c14cfd275d27df108010f3055a0cc9cd949cc

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-lipitor-atorvastatin-20mg-chewable-tablets ↗

Archive capture

https://web.archive.org/web/20240723032131id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-lipitor-atorvastatin-20mg-chewable-tablets ↗

Parser version

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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