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National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2021/004/MHRA

National Patient Safety Alert: Class 1 Medicines Recall for Co-codamol 30/500 effervescent tablets (Zentiva)

NatPSA/2021/004/MHRA issued 16 Jun 2021

Reference
NatPSA/2021/004/MHRA
Kind
National Patient Safety Alert
Issued
16 Jun 2021
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 29 Oct 2023 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 16 Jun 2021National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource post

Provenance

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post:8863b8d62bd8

Recorded
29 Oct 2023 22:25 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
29 Oct 2023 22:25 UTC
Content hash
1ad4ffb4c5d7b95bbeb612e57c628113cf5d79e609fda50cb11c18528a68b60f
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document
https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-class-1-medicines-recall-for-co-codamol-30-500-effervescent-tablets-zentiva ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20231029222541id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-class-1-medicines-recall-for-co-codamol-30-500-effervescent-tablets-zentiva ↗
Parser version
3
Source anomalies
  • no product/status lines recognised
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected
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