Dealing with invalid query strings

I have created a mysql/php site with master and product detail pages. The product details are filtered via a url query string
e.g. domain/proddetail.php?productID=38
This all works fine except for the case when a product is deleted and the productID is no longer valid. Because Google continues to index these pages vsitors then get a page displaying no data .
How do I gracefully deal with these invalid productIDs? Preferbly I want to redirect to a error404 page so that Gogle delists but simply displaying a product not found notice would be better than nothing.
Thanks

In your proddetail.php page, test the recordset rowcount - if it is zero, redirect to your 404 page.

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