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Docusate sodium 100mg capsules

MSAN(2021)9 · Level 2 · issued 08 Mar 2020 · source anomaly flagged ⚠

Reference
MSAN(2021)9
Issued
08 Mar 2020
Priority
Level 2
Valid until
June 2021 - update MSAN(2020)119 as stated by the source
Source
Signed NHS Scotland notice (PDF) ↗

What the notice states

The supply position for each affected product, as recorded in the notice — read the full signed PDF above for the clinical advice and actions.

ProductPositionResupply
1. Limited supplies of docusate sodium 100mg capsules are available until June 2021.AvailableJune 2021
2. Docusate sodium 50mg/5ml oral solution remains available.Available—

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.

scot:msan:2021:9

Recorded
13 Aug 2026 22:03 UTC
Capture route
Captured first-hand by ShortageSignal's scheduled check
Read from
NHS Scotland Medicine Supply Alert Notice (PDF)
Captured at
13 Aug 2026 22:03 UTC
Content hash
4aa338fcdd85139add70748d24566b43a1e349b34dc73e6c1a5378061cd6fb4b
sha256 of the captured bytes — proves what was captured, not that the source was correct
Source document
https://www.publications.scot.nhs.uk/files/msan-2021-09.pdf ↗
Source anomalies
  • ref year 2021 != issue year 2020
as recorded by the parser about the source as captured — flagged, never corrected

From the NHS Scotland notice PDF (linked above); dates and “valid until” text are as stated, fuzzy wording kept as written. Scotland is covered separately from England — see methodology. Not an official NHS service, and not clinical advice — follow the guidance issued to your pharmacy.