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Medicine Supply Notification · MSN/2025/017

Medicine Supply Notification: Levofloxacin 250mg and 500mg tablets

MSN/2025/017 issued 27 Mar 2025

Reference
MSN/2025/017
Kind
Medicine Supply Notification
Issued
27 Mar 2025
Expected back
late April 2025 as stated by the source — kept fuzzy
Recorded changes
2
Source
Announcement post ↗

Presentations, as stated

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PresentationStatus, as statedExpected back, as statedStated in
Levofloxacin 250mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingLimited supply, as statedlate April 2025precision: late in the month · window end 30 Apr 2025, derived from “late April 2025”notice of 27 Mar 2025
Levofloxacin 500mg tabletsaffected product · inferred from phrasingLimited supply, as statedlate May 2025precision: late in the month · window end 31 May 2025, derived from “late May 2025”notice of 27 Mar 2025
Alternative antibioticsclass-level statement by the source, not a named product · inferred from phrasingStated as available— not stated for this linenotice of 27 Mar 2025

What changed

  1. 27 Mar 2025Supply notification issuedsource post
  2. 27 Mar 2025Expected backsource post

Provenance

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Recorded
12 Jul 2026 14:46 UTC
Capture route
Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from
Community Pharmacy England post (DHSC notification as relayed)
Captured at
12 Jul 2026 14:46 UTC
Content hash
aeb2ea391a27c78853db1db9aafa86859df3dac7721f0cfdffd8e47fe2054a0f
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-levofloxacin-250mg-and-500mg-tablets ↗
Parser version
3
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