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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2022/090

Medicine Supply Notification: Fentanyl (Effentora® ) 200 microgram and 400 microgram buccal tablets

MSN/2022/090 Tier 2 · medium · issued 27 Oct 2022

Fentanyl has been notified short 3 times since 2022 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2022/090
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
27 Oct 2022
Expected back
late November 2022 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 02 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.

PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Effentora® 200 microgram buccal tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedlate November 2022precision: late in the month · window end 30 Nov 2022, derived from “late November 2022”notice of 27 Oct 2022
Effentora® 100 microgram buccal tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; can support only a partial uplift— not stated for this linenotice of 27 Oct 2022
Effentora® 600 microgram and 800 microgram buccal tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 27 Oct 2022
Alternative formulations of immediate release fentanylclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 27 Oct 2022

What changed

  1. 27 Oct 2022Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 27 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:b2bd72934f18

Recorded
02 Mar 2024 06:31 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
02 Mar 2024 06:31 UTC
Content hash
0ffb43386eba767a8a877b58975cf7f15cd91278a033435ba2c16b3b2e01b7ea
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-fentanyl-effentora-200-microgram-and-400-microgram-buccal-tablets ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240302063101id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-fentanyl-effentora-200-microgram-and-400-microgram-buccal-tablets ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • multiple statuses on one line (['available_partial_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_partial_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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