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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/028

Medicine Supply Notification: Capsaicin 0.075% (Axsain®) and 0.025% (Zacin®) cream

MSN/2023/028 Tier 2 · medium · issued 16 Mar 2023

Reference
MSN/2023/028
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
16 Mar 2023
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 20 Apr 2024 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 16 Mar 2023Supply notification issuedsource 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:f4a4f6b65d67

Recorded
20 Apr 2024 00:01 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
20 Apr 2024 00:01 UTC
Content hash
e57af573f8deecb3c119f924c62efa6bb09424403c314d5e851d743699778b78
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-capsaicin-0-075-axsain-and-0-025-zacin-cream ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240420000112id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-capsaicin-0-075-axsain-and-0-025-zacin-cream ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • no product/status lines recognised
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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