Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2024/048

Medicine Supply Notification: Mesalazine (Asacol® ) 400mg MR gastro-resistant tablets

MSN/2024/048 Tier 2 · medium · issued 25 Apr 2024

Mesalazine has been notified short 2 times since 2022 — see the full history →

Reference: MSN/2024/048
Kind: Medicine Supply Notification
Issued: 25 Apr 2024
Recorded changes: 2
Source: Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 15 Jul 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.

Presentation	Status, as stated	Expected back, as stated	Stated in
Asacol® 400mg MR gastro-resistant tablets (pack size 168)affected product · inferred from phrasing	Discontinued, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Apr 2024
Asacol® 400mg MR gastro-resistant tablets (pack size 84)affected product · inferred from phrasing	Discontinued, as stated	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Apr 2024
Mesalazine (Octasa® MR) 400mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Apr 2024
Mesalazine (Asacol®) 800mg MR gastro-resistant tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Apr 2024
Other mesalazine tablet preparations, with different release characteristicsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasing	Stated as available	— not stated for this line	notice of 25 Apr 2024

What changed

25 Apr 2024Supply notification issuedsource post
25 Apr 2024Product discontinuedsource post

Provenance

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Recorded: 19 May 2024 04:33 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: 15 Jul 2024 17:04 UTC
Content hash: 11de66c04b36add9686c35356766d5dab4733470b122477ec4aa3b83e3275fd6
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Source document: https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-mesalazine-asacol-400mg-mr-gastro-resistant-tablets/?unlid=6402712122024715165514 ↗
Archive capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20240715170436id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-mesalazine-asacol-400mg-mr-gastro-resistant-tablets/?unlid=6402712122024715165514 ↗
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