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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/007

Medicine Supply Notification: Fluoxetine 20mg/5ml oral solution and fluoxetine (Olena® ) 20mg dispersible tablets

MSN/2023/007 Tier 2 · medium · issued 03 Feb 2023

Fluoxetine has been notified short 3 times since 2021 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2023/007
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
03 Feb 2023
Expected back
March 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 23 Feb 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
Fluoxetine 20mg/5ml oral solutionaffected product · inferred from phrasingLimited supply, as statedMarch 2023precision: a month · window end 31 Mar 2023, derived from “March 2023”notice of 03 Feb 2023
Fluoxetine (Olena®) 20mg dispersible tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as stated— not stated for this linenotice of 03 Feb 2023
Fluoxetine capsules, including the 10mg and 20mg strengthsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 03 Feb 2023

What changed

  1. 03 Feb 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 03 Feb 2023Expected 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:c59cfe202cd7

Recorded
23 Feb 2024 23:10 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 Feb 2024 23:10 UTC
Content hash
4d744104702f4ceea8431ba9c4a8fc5c7c0b33bb2692aeb63d76d3452b0c56d6
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-fluoxetine-20mg-5ml-oral-solution-and-fluoxetine-olena-20mg-dispersible-tablets ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240223231041id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-fluoxetine-20mg-5ml-oral-solution-and-fluoxetine-olena-20mg-dispersible-tablets ↗
Parser version
3
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