Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/008

Medicine Supply Notification: Sulfasalazine (Salazopyrin®) 500mg suppositories

MSN/2023/008 Tier 2 · medium · issued 03 Feb 2023

Sulfasalazine has been notified short 3 times since 2022 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2023/008
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 03 Feb 2023
Expected back: w/c 20th March 2023 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 29 Nov 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
Sulfasalazine (Salazopyrin®) 500mg suppositoriesaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	w/c 20th March 2023precision: a month · window end 26 Mar 2023, derived from “w/c 20th March 2023”	notice of 03 Feb 2023
Alternative aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) containing suppositoriesclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 03 Feb 2023

What changed

03 Feb 2023Supply notification issuedsource post
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.

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Recorded: 29 Nov 2023 02:30 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: 29 Nov 2023 02:30 UTC
Content hash: 9e4ec0a2d45460f77b667319ba535a3da74ada252fcbad24a4b3b630c686f733
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-sulfasalazine-salazopyrin-500mg-suppositories ↗
Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20231129023014id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-sulfasalazine-salazopyrin-500mg-suppositories ↗
Parser version: 3

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