Since MHRA statements keeps coming up, it should probably be a maintained page rather than a recurring thread. I am happy to draft it if someone with more direct experience will review it.
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MHRA statements, read directly posts 31–60
This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1 · go to the accepted answer.
aliquot_line, post #31: Since MHRA statements keeps coming up, it should probably be a maintained page rather than a recurring thread. I am happy to draft it if someone with more direct experience will review it. Go to post
A referral pathway that worked eighteen months ago may not exist now. The archive keeps these posts and they are read as current.
If it helps: the failure mode here is usually boring rather than dramatic.
The arithmetic in post #32 is right; the assumption feeding it is the part to check.
Correcting an out-of-date claim in this subcategory with a source and a date is more valuable than a new topic on the same question.
I looked this up rather than remembered it, which is the right order.
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m.almeida, post #29: Post #25 put the caveat in the right place and I want to underline it. The useful distinction on MHRA statements is between what was measured and what was inferred from it. Both end up in the same sentence and only one of them has error bars. Go to post
Following this. I have the same question and no better information than the first post.
g.haaland, post #3: The arithmetic on MHRA statements is the easy part and it is where the errors are, which is an uncomfortable combination. Show your working and someone will catch it. Go to post
Post #34 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
Members outside these two jurisdictions reading this thread should note that none of it transfers, including the parts that sound general.
The evidence for this is thinner than the way I have phrased it suggests.
an.kirchner, post #21: I keep a log for MHRA statements specifically because my memory of it turned out to be systematically wrong in one direction. Six weeks of notes cost nothing and settled it. Go to post
This follows post #36 rather than contradicting it.
Importing for personal use: importing a prescription-only medicine without a prescription is not lawful. Material sold as research-use-only is not a licensed medicine regardless of content.
Worth separating two things that post #38 runs together.
Worth stating the null on MHRA statements before we explain it: the observation may be nothing. That possibility deserves a sentence and usually does not get one.
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m.haddad, post #35: Following this. I have the same question and no better information than the first post. Go to post
Adding what did not work for me on MHRA statements, since the failures never get written up and they are half the useful information.
Worth separating two things that post #39 runs together.
Compounding pharmacies: UK allows compounding under specific conditions when a licensed product is unavailable. That is not a front-line option but becomes relevant during shortages.
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e.nilsen, post #34: Answering the question post #30 raises rather than the one it answers. What I can speak to on MHRA statements is narrow, so I will keep it narrow rather than generalising from it. Beyond that boundary I do not know. Go to post
Something worth flagging about MHRA statements: the strongest-sounding claims in this thread are the ones with no source attached, which is the usual pattern and not a coincidence.
Post #43 and I disagree about the size of the effect, not about the direction.
The bit of MHRA statements that nobody enjoys is that the answer changes depending on what you are trying to decide with it. Say what the decision is and the thread will converge.
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Where I part company with post #47, and it is a narrow parting.
Cross-border arrangements: some people source from other EU countries. Rules on import for personal use are changing post-Brexit. Current status requires checking with UKVI.
v.milanovi, post #1: MHRA statements, read directly Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Asking about MHRA statements directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered a slightly different question. The version I want answered is the narrow one: given the method stated below, is the result… Go to post
An honest declaration on MHRA statements: I have a prior here and it is strong enough that you should weight what I say downward. Stating it rather than hiding it.
Picking up post #50: that is the part I would want checked first.
Where a member reports a decision, the useful detail is the stated reason rather than the outcome, because the reason is what generalises.
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Useful. I have added it to my own notes with the date on it.
d.fontaine, post #49: Where I part company with post #47, and it is a narrow parting. Cross-border arrangements: some people source from other EU countries. Rules on import for personal use are changing post-Brexit. Current status requires checking with UKVI. Go to post
Confirming post #53 from a second method, which matters more than confirming it from a second person.
MHRA statements looks different depending on whether you are reading the primary literature or the summaries of it, and the difference is not in our favour.
Small methodological point on MHRA statements: repeating a measurement is cheap and resolves most of what is being argued about here at no cost to anyone.
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Post #56 describes the usual case. This is about the unusual one.
The relevant national body publishes its decisions and its shortage notifications directly, and those are the primary sources rather than any secondary summary.
That is my reading. Someone else read the same page differently and was reasonable.
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v.milanovi, post #1: MHRA statements, read directly Writing it up because I had to work it out twice and would rather nobody else did. Asking about MHRA statements directly, because I have read four threads on it and each answered a slightly different question. The version I want answered is the narrow one: given the method stated below, is the result… Go to post
Everything in post #56 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Correcting an out-of-date claim in this subcategory with a source and a date is more valuable than a new topic on the same question.