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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/085

Medicine Supply Notification: Prochlorperazine (Stemetil®) 5mg/5ml Syrup

MSN/2022/085 Tier 2 · medium · issued 12 Oct 2022

Prochlorperazine has been notified short 4 times since 2022 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2022/085
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
12 Oct 2022
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 06 Jul 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
Prochlorperazine tablets and buccal tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 12 Oct 2022

What changed

  1. 12 Oct 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 12 Oct 2022Product discontinuedsource post

Provenance

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post:6d66316fd764

Recorded
06 Jul 2023 17:27 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 Jul 2023 17:27 UTC
Content hash
d0b1e814fe851d5b700e523a4c11ebc8255f0c6c6b6913fd91f606a51090b821
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document
http://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-prochlorperazine-stemetil-5mg-5ml-syrup ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20230706172704id_/http://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-prochlorperazine-stemetil-5mg-5ml-syrup ↗
Parser version
3
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