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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2024/063

Medicine Supply Notification: Memantine (Valios® ) 10mg and 20mg orodispersible tablets sugar free

MSN/2024/063 Tier 2 · medium · issued 29 May 2024

Memantine has been notified short 2 times since 2024 — see the full history →
Reference
MSN/2024/063
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
29 May 2024
Expected back
late August 2024 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 15 Oct 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
Valios® 10mg and 20mg orodispersible tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingOut of stock, as statedlate August 2024precision: late in the month · window end 31 Aug 2024, derived from “late August 2024”notice of 29 May 2024
Valios® 5mg orodispersible tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; can support only a partial uplift— not stated for this linenotice of 29 May 2024
Memantine 10mg/ml oral solution and Ebixa® 5mg pump oral solutionnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 29 May 2024

What changed

  1. 29 May 2024Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 29 May 2024Expected 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.

post:17c95e1778b0

Recorded
15 Oct 2024 12:34 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 Oct 2024 12:34 UTC
Content hash
b22d4e3be4abde1790690b8c7547b13f11106b8701bbe94c5c0a05727b393fcb
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-memantine-valios-10mg-and-20mg-orodispersible-tablets-sugar-free ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20241015123421id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-memantine-valios-10mg-and-20mg-orodispersible-tablets-sugar-free ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • multiple statuses on one line (['available_partial_uplift', 'available']) — recorded 'available_partial_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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