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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2024/071

Medicine Supply Notification: Erythromycin 250mg gastro-resistant tablets

MSN/2024/071 Tier 2 · medium · issued 12 Jun 2024

Reference
MSN/2024/071
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
12 Jun 2024
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 10 Nov 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
Erythromycin 500mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 12 Jun 2024
Erythromycin oral suspensionsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasingStated as available; cannot support an uplift in demand— not stated for this linenotice of 12 Jun 2024
Azithromycin 500mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Stated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 12 Jun 2024
Clarithromycin 250mg and 500mg tabletsnamed by the source as remaining available · inferred from phrasing · its own page →Stated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 12 Jun 2024

What changed

  1. 12 Jun 2024Supply notification issuedsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
10 Nov 2024 09:46 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
10 Nov 2024 09:46 UTC
Content hash
15f8745c0fa50e7b0bd8f220c8586eff3d2173f193b439d2d8b53e61d67e4f05
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-erythromycin-250mg-gastro-resistant-tablets ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20241110094625id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/medicine-supply-notification-erythromycin-250mg-gastro-resistant-tablets ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • multiple distinct MSN refs in one post: ['MSN/2024/060', 'MSN/2024/071']
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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