The European Medicines Verification Organisation has published a Letter of Announcement on the decommissioning of products using the correct statuses.
If an incorrect status is used it can result in the generation of a large number of alerts, and it could mean that the pack of batch is in a non-compliant state.
For more information about this read the letter from EMVO here
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