Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/007

Medicine Supply Notification: Mesalazine (Asacol® ) 400mg and 800mg MR gastro-resistant tablets

MSN/2022/007 Tier 2 · medium · issued 10 Feb 2022

Mesalazine has been notified short 2 times since 2022 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2022/007
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 10 Feb 2022
Expected back: mid-March 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

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
Asacol® 400mg and 800mg MR gastro-resistant tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	mid-March 2022precision: mid-month · window end 20 Mar 2022, derived from “mid-March 2022”	notice of 10 Feb 2022
Octasa® MR 400mg and 800mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 10 Feb 2022
Other mesalazine tablet preparations with different release characteristicsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 10 Feb 2022

What changed

10 Feb 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
10 Feb 2022Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded: 06 Jun 2023 10:35 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 10:35 UTC
Content hash: 4a293f7b518cfed544cb14ccc65a734c7dcca3ee6edcf750fdcf05f1bf631cd7
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Source document: https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-mesalazine-asacol-400mg-and-800mg-mr-gastro-resistant-tablets ↗
Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20230606103557id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-mesalazine-asacol-400mg-and-800mg-mr-gastro-resistant-tablets ↗
Parser version: 3

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