Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2023/064

Medicine Supply Notification: Testosterone (Tostran®) 2% gel

MSN/2023/064 Tier 2 · medium · issued 04 Jul 2023

Testosterone has been notified short 2 times since 2023 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2023/064
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 04 Jul 2023
Recorded changes: 1
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 04 Dec 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
Testosterone (Tostran®) 2% gelaffected product · inferred from phrasing	Out of stock, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 04 Jul 2023
Testavan® and Testogel®named by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 04 Jul 2023

What changed

04 Jul 2023Supply notification issuedsource post

Provenance

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Recorded: 04 Dec 2023 00:14 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: 04 Dec 2023 00:14 UTC
Content hash: 1749499503b7de539f7f72421843e61bd18e6e86817ad6483eb8d39798974797
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-testosterone-tostran-2-gel ↗
Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20231204001411id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-testosterone-tostran-2-gel ↗
Parser version: 3

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