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Date posted: Wednesday 14 October, 1998 at 12:51pm
Page Title: Packaging For??The Third Age Presented As Part Of Retail Pack98
Paper presented at Retailpack 98,
Wednesday 14th October 1998,
as part of Packaging for the 3rd Age -
Stephen Wilkins, The Child-Safe Packaging Group.
A number of special problems become apparent when pharmaceuticals or other potentially hazardous products are packaged. Here in the UK the regulations concerning child resistant packaging originated in 1975 as the "Medicines (Child Safety Regulations)". And after really very little changes during the intervening twenty three years have now emerged as BS EN 28317, the English language version of ISO 8317.
Here in the UK we are obliged to use child resistant packaging only for aspirin and paracetamol although, needless to say, CRC???s are used for many other products.
In addition, although unit dose packaging, namely blister and strip packs, are not tested for child resistance if their use is the packaging of pharmaceuticals, they are subject to testing for other potentially hazardous unit and dose products. This blister pack testing standard is BS EN 862.
Here is a definition of child resistant packaging, it is: " packaging that is designed and constructed to be difficult for young children to open within a reasonable time and that is not difficult for adults to use properly."
Both of the two standards to which I have referred, namely BS EN 28317 and BS EN 862, assess child resistance based upon a sequential test of a panel of children. Because of the complex nature of children???s abilities, child resistant effectiveness is panel tested; thus far the only method of testing that has been accepted by elements of the industry and the ...
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Paper presented at Retailpack 98,
Wednesday 14th October 1998,
as part of Packaging for the 3rd Age -
Stephen Wilkins, The Child-Safe Packaging Group.
A number of special problems become apparent when pharmaceuticals or other potentially hazardous products are packaged. Here in the UK the regulations concerning child resistant packaging originated in 1975 as the "Medicines (Child Safety Regulations)". And after really very little changes during the intervening twenty three years have now emerged as BS EN 28317, the English language version of ISO 8317.
Here in the UK we are obliged to use child resistant packaging only for aspirin and paracetamol although, needless to say, CRC???s are used for many other products.
In addition, although unit dose packaging, namely blister and strip packs, are not tested for child resistance if their use is the packaging of pharmaceuticals, they are subject to testing for other potentially hazardous unit and dose products. This blister pack testing standard is BS EN 862.
Here is a definition of child resistant packaging, it is: " packaging that is designed and constructed to be difficult for young children to open within a reasonable time and that is not difficult for adults to use properly."
Both of the two standards to which I have referred, namely BS EN 28317 and BS EN 862, assess child resistance based upon a sequential test of a panel of children. Because of the complex nature of children???s abilities, child resistant effectiveness is panel tested; thus far the only method of testing that has been accepted by elements of the industry and the ...
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