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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2024/001

Medicine Supply Notification: Isosorbide mononitrate 40mg modified release tablets and capsules

MSN/2024/001 Tier 2 · medium · issued 03 Jan 2024

Isosorbide Mononitrate has been notified short 5 times since 2024 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2024/001
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
03 Jan 2024
Expected back
early January 2024 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 19 Jan 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
Zemon® 40 XL tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedearly January 2024precision: early in the month · window end 10 Jan 2024, derived from “early January 2024”notice of 03 Jan 2024
Nyzamac® SR 40mg capsulesaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedlate January 2024precision: late in the month · window end 31 Jan 2024, derived from “late January 2024”notice of 03 Jan 2024
Isotard® 40XL tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedearly February 2024precision: early in the month · window end 10 Feb 2024, derived from “early February 2024”notice of 03 Jan 2024
ISMO Retard® 40mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 03 Jan 2024
Isosorbide mononitrate MR 50mg and 60mg preparationsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 03 Jan 2024
Isosorbide mononitrate immediate release tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 03 Jan 2024

What changed

  1. 03 Jan 2024Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 03 Jan 2024Expected backsource post

Provenance

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post:3b151bb1c1a9

Recorded
19 Jan 2024 17:53 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
19 Jan 2024 17:53 UTC
Content hash
8ef81ca21d021baecd636553f14081f9a9b5cd793d0a70aebb1898af03d45a1c
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-isosorbide-mononitrate-40mg-modified-release-tablets-and-capsules ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240119175309id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-isosorbide-mononitrate-40mg-modified-release-tablets-and-capsules ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • multiple statuses on one line (['available_no_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_no_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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