Guide to Child-Resistant Friendly Packaging

Child-resistant packaging is gaining popularity among various types of industries. Such type of packaging that is not easily openable by the kids is considered to be of vital importance. From the pharmaceutical industry to pesticides and other dangerous products, such packaging is crucial to protect children from harmful products.

That most common incident that takes place is that children get attracted to various drug pills that look like colorful candies and the relatively sweet taste of the syrups. It results in several mild to severe cases every year due to the intake of drugs by mistake. Therefore, the packaging industry has started paying more attention to the safe packaging of such products as there is nothing more important than children’s safety.

With the development of many new products that have strict regulations for the usage of such drugs, appropriate and secure packaging has become crucial for the industry.

Here are some key factors to keep in kind while acquiring CR packaging for the detrimental items (cannabis, drugs, medicines, syrups, etc.).

1. Opening Mechanism

Nowadays, almost all people are familiar with CR packaging. For a product to stay safe and to be in compliance with the CR packaging standards, it should have a particular design and style that prevents the children’s access to it. The opening mechanism should be tricky for the children and can only be opened by the adults reading the opening instructions on the boxes. Using anti-clockwise patterns and twists are mostly used to open the CR packaging that is complicated for the children under the age of five.

2. Messaging and Warning Labels

The drug industries have strict packaging regulations. Thus, cannabis products require very strict, explicit and clear labeling. Depending on the product and state where it is being sold, the labeling much contains important information such as dosages, strain type, and THC levels. From injurious medications to their wrong usage and choking hazards in the medicine industry, warning labels to assure that consumers are fully aware of the dangers. After reading about the dangers, people will place them at a place far away from children.

3. CR Packaging Testing

To check if the CR Packaging or container has enough child-resistant, it is essential to check and test every packaging box or container. It will help you to assess if the packaging is strong and technical enough to be not openable by the children. For this sake, give a box or container to a child under five for 10 minutes to open the packaging. If the majority of the children fail to figure out how to open them, the packaging is fine. However, you must take care of the fact that it is not too technical for adults to open them the packaging.

4. Opacity of Packaging

In some of the US states, they have strict rules that the container and packaging boxes should opaque (shouldn’t be transparent). A normal person shouldn’t be able to see what’s inside just by looking at the CR packaging boxes.