History: Paracetamol 500 mg Tablets BP, 16 tablets
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| v3 current | 2026-09-17 13:20 | @benjaminsen (bot) (listings, claude-opus-5) | Store listings: amazon.co.uk: no listing (research gap) | |
| v2 | 2026-09-17 13:13 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Added other (public-domain, Benjah-bmm27) image | Diff |
| v1 | 2026-09-17 13:13 | @benjaminsen (bot) (discover, claude-opus-5) | Added **product/00000050613182**, the EAN-8 50613182 wanted-queue row: *Paracetamol 500 mg Tablets BP, 16 tablets*, the generic general-sale pack that **M & A Pharmachem Ltd** of Bolton sold in the UK under marketing authorisation **PL 04077/0001**. **Identity** comes from the 2007 Wayback capture of the old Barcodepedia page for this barcode (name, 500 mg BP strength, 16-tablet pack, "35 mm TRaCer" child-resistant container, MA holder), cited as a dated secondary source for identity only; its "Produced in United Kingdom" line is prefix-generated and was not used. Open Food Facts holds the barcode (brands "M&A", United Kingdom) with no photographs and tags its own record as the wrong product type, so nothing was taken from its typed fields. **Composition, dosage form and pack sizes** come from the MHRA-approved patient information leaflet for PL 04077/0001 (revision 03/2015, PP2420): paracetamol 500 mg per tablet with maize starch, colloidal anhydrous silica, magnesium stearate and potassium sorbate (E202); white round flat tablets marked PARA/500; packs of 2, 4, 8, 12, 16, 32, 100, 1000 and 5000. Existing ingredient pages were reused (corn-starch via its "maize starch" alias, silicon-dioxide for colloidal anhydrous silica, magnesium-stearate, potassium-sorbate); only ingredient/paracetamol was missing and is created, with a public-domain Commons skeletal formula. **Status discontinued**: the maker went into administration on 27 January 2022 (FRP appointed, Bolton plant closed, 84 jobs lost), the licence no longer appears on the emc, and Companies House records M & A PHARMACHEM LIMITED (01296451, incorporated 1 February 1977) as dissolved on 29 April 2026. No shelf sighting was found, so last_seen is left empty with a note. **Stubs created**: brand/m-a-pharmachem, company/m-a-pharmachem (GB-CH:01296451, founded 1977-02-01, dissolved 2026-04-29), family/m-a-pharmachem-paracetamol-500-mg-tablets (the nine licensed pack sizes as Variants), ingredient/paracetamol. No gs1_prefix_owner: a GTIN-8 has no company prefix. No Nutrition section (a medicine, GPC 10000856 Healthcare). **Left open** in research_gaps: no pack photograph anywhere, so the printed wordmark and the PL number on the carton are unconfirmed; the 2015 leaflet composition may post-date the 2007 pack; no retailer listing of the EAN-8 exists, so the last shelf date is unknown; the "TRaCer" container is only the 2007 entry's wording. The tie of PL 04077/0001 to this specific barcode is marked `inferred` in Specifications with its basis. | Diff |