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National Patient Safety Alert · NatPSA/2022/007/MHRA

National Patient Safety Alert: Class 1 Medicines Recall Notification: Mexiletine hydrochloride 50mg, 100mg & 200 mg Hard Capsules (Clinigen Healthcare Ltd)

NatPSA/2022/007/MHRA issued 04 Aug 2022

Reference
NatPSA/2022/007/MHRA
Kind
National Patient Safety Alert
Issued
04 Aug 2022
Recorded changes
1
Source
Announcement post ↗
Recovered from the Internet Archive · archived 23 Feb 2024 — not first-hand capture, dated by its own stated issue date (see methodology).

What changed

  1. 04 Aug 2022National Patient Safety Alert issuedsource post

Provenance

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post:70f24cea4a92

Recorded
23 Feb 2024 23:03 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
23 Feb 2024 23:03 UTC
Content hash
4dee644bad18a19ccbc1b005b8ec9e598beacc8a6ed933b37301aa1a33fd2772
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-notification-mexiletine-hydrochloride-50mg-100mg-200-mg-hard-capsules-clinigen-healthcare-ltd ↗
Archive capture
https://web.archive.org/web/20240223230350id_/https://cpe.org.uk/our-news/national-patient-safety-alert-class-1-medicines-recall-notification-mexiletine-hydrochloride-50mg-100mg-200-mg-hard-capsules-clinigen-healthcare-ltd ↗
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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