faubel and co.&39s olofmalmgren at pharmapack 2012 in paris spoke regarding childresistant applications in the u.s., as well as about the lack of european regulations. according to the who world health organization, in the european province, the thirdleading reason of accidental death in kids through age 14 is due to acute poisoning. who claims that, in that age group, each year 3,000 children die. more shocking is the fact that 90 of those incidents of poisning take place in the home. these facts were mentioned in the opening remarks by olofmalmgren of faubel& co. at pharmapack. feb. 16. malmgren talked regarding packaging that is childresistant as well as the role it can play on minimizing the amount of intoxications poisoning by a toxic substance or drug in kids. in the presentation, malmgren mentioned the influence of poisonings, as well as methods of childresistant packagetesting in the u.s. malmgren also talked about the lack of rules and regulation for packaging in the e.u. province. throughout the world, youth poisonings is a very serious concern. alone in germany malmgren&39s home, per year, in 120,000 accidents, kids are involved in improper use of chemicals, cleaning agents, and drugs. in the u.s., around 3 billion is spent yearly on the treatment of poisonings. in iso 8317en 14375, in the u.s., testing standards are outlined, and say that seniorfriendlychildresistant package examination must be done by accredited organizations. malmgren notified two such orgnizations ivm institute and perritt laboratories. in the u.s., tests must be carried out with 200 children in the group of 42 to 51 months andor 100 individuals in the group of 50 to 70 years. senior citizens get instructions for written test mentioning how to close and open the package before testing. kids aren&39t given any introduction regarding opening the packages. kids&rsquo and elders&rsquo groups are given time of 5 minutes to unlock the packaging. then, kids witness a demonstration of the opening procedures, and again given 5 more minutes to unlock the packaging. on the other hand, seniors are given one minute more to prove its seniorfriendliness. in order to gain the status of childresistant, minimum 85 of the 200 kids must not be able to unwrap the packaging within the initial 5 minutes. in the next 5 minutes, at least 80 kids must not be able to unwrap the packaging during the testing. in case of adults, and to gain the status of seniorfriendliness minimum 90 of the people must be able to unwrap the packaging within first 5 minutes in order. european directives 1967548ecc and 199945ec provisions lay out about the packaging, labelling, and classification of drugs as well as other likely dangerous substances, however, there aren&39t any rules in place that need childresistant packaging. it is up to individual nations to put regulations in place to implement these initiatives. for example, in france, packaging laws about childresistant don&39t exist at all. malmgren demonstrated a video of packaging examination done by a pharmacist in germany, who pointed out that in that nation, packaging that is childresistant is still hard to find. while malmgren acknowledges that the eu mentions that regulations are required, he is uninformed of any changes that are there in the pipeline. despite the fact that u.s. has different needs for childresistant packaging, in europe a normally accepted rule of thumb exists only if not more than eight tablets are dispensed, irrespective of their degree of dangerousness, the packaging is acknowledged to be safe for kids. source of information httpwww.packworld.compackagefeaturesafetychildresistantpackagingcanreducepo…
