unicef the world health organisation who, in its 2008 world report on the topic of child injury prevention, mentioned that the child resistant packaging is one of the great documented achievements in averting the accidental poisoning of children. furthermore, the report mentioned that the prescription medicines in developed world are a main reason of child poisoning. the report emphasized that blister packs that are nonchild resistant are a major hazard. since the early 1970s, the packaging industry of europe, and specifically the packaging industry of plastics, has fronted the way in child resistant packaging. so what is the reason that it is this efficient system underused the solution is covered up in a mix of &ldquopractice directions&rdquo, standards, and regulations. most rules and regulations are a group of common law and statute, with a reasonable dose of industry practice and ethics. they work out. in regular law jurisdictions, such as the uk&rsquos, they are subject to constant development introduced by the courts. rules and regulation specific applications, such as child resistant packaging, require specialist standards. for child resistant packaging, here at the eu, over the past few years, three standards were established. bs en 862 2005 &ndash nonreclosable packs for nonmedicines bs en iso 8317 2004 &ndash reclosable packs for any kind of contents bs en 14375 2003 &ndash nonreclosable packs for medicines all of these established standards assess the child resistance, or if not, of a kind of pack by experimenting it with a group of children ageing from 4251 months and adults ageing from 5070 years. the panel of kids comprises minimum 30 and up to 200 children. this panel checks the pack for two phases of five minutes. in between, they see a silent demonstration. for the pack to get the status of child resistant packaging, 85 of kids must not be able to open it before witnessing the demonstration and 80 after viewing it. this time the publication of a fourth edition of bs en iso 13127 2012 &ndash &ldquochild resistant packaging &ndash mechanical test techniques for reclosable systems of child resistant packaging&rdquo. this is an essential step forward and it offers a structure to check packs when there has been a &ldquoslight change&rdquo from a pack formerly tested in adherence with bs en iso 8317. the definition of a minor change is quite ambiguous. the publication to bs en iso 13127, which recognizes that 8317 does not satisfactorily cover up change management, mentions &ldquochange management is covered in it, but is not restricted to, for example, change of packaging material, supplier, material brand, component manufacturing site or scale up. &ldquo the standard offers a tool for risk assessment whose solutions are retest as per the 8317, adult of child test or together or apply one or more of the mechanical examinations in the standard and evaluate the information with that from the pack, beforehand tested previously to the minor change. in 13127, changes that are unqualified of being examined with mechanical test techniques are set out section 4.3. in this section, it describes the limitations of the mechanical test procedures. the section states that they cannot quantify or measure grip or frictional forces, for instance, between a package and a hand. modifications to a type approved package which have the potential to influence the hand grip of an adult or child on the package therefore cannot be assessed by techniques mentioned in the international standard. source of information httpwww.europeanplasticsnews.comsubscriberheadlines2.htmlcat1&id2935
