Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/088

Medicine Supply Notification: Azelaic acid (Finacea® ) 15% gel

MSN/2022/088 Tier 2 · medium · issued 25 Oct 2022

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

Reference: MSN/2022/088
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 25 Oct 2022
Expected back: mid-November 2022 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 01 Mar 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
Azelaic acid (Finacea®) 15% gelaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	mid-November 2022precision: mid-month · window end 20 Nov 2022, derived from “mid-November 2022”	notice of 25 Oct 2022
Limited stock of azelaic acid (Skinoren®) 20% creamnamed 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 25 Oct 2022
Alternative topical treatmentsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Oct 2022

What changed

25 Oct 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
25 Oct 2022Expected 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:9319bd1d9387

Recorded

01 Mar 2024 08:48 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

01 Mar 2024 08:48 UTC

Content hash

c52fd2acb6e605e82b2b0b67a200d8969a649d60f2580700502c1cb87c32f180

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-azelaic-acid-finacea-15-gel ↗

Archive capture

https://web.archive.org/web/20240301084847id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-azelaic-acid-finacea-15-gel ↗

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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