Poison Prevention Packaging

Under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970, any product that, if consumed by a child, could result in harm to the child must be packaged using components difficult for a child to open. This is referred to as child-resistant packaging. 

In 1970 the Poison Prevention Packaging Act was passed. It provides for packaging 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. Establishing child-resistance effectiveness in a flexible unitized package is considerably more complex and, in certain circumstances, more difficult than doing so with a child-resistant cap on a bottle [21]. 

The Poison Prevention Packaging Act (www.cpsc.gov/businfo/pppa.html) requires special packaging of most human oral prescription drugs, oral controlled drugs, certain normal prescription drugs, certain dietary supplements, and many over-the-counter (OTC) drug preparations in order to protect the public from personal injury or illness from misuse of these preparations. 

Section 211.132 states that none of the requirements for special packaging (child-resistant packaging), as defined in Section 310.3 and required under the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970, are affected. 

The CPSC was created by Congress in 1972 and assumed, as one of its roles, the enforcement of the U.S. Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 (16 C.F.R. 1700). " Since then, the regulatory breadth of CPSC has grown, but its impact on packaging still primarily pertains to the closures. The CPSC regulations can be found in 16 C.F.R. and specifically provide requirements for child-resistant and tamper-evident packaging systems. ... 

To carry out its mission, CPSC administers five statutes. They are (1) the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA), (2) the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), (3) the Flammable Fabrics Act (FFA), (4) the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA), and (5) the Refrigerator Safety Act (RSA). Toxicological issues arise most frequently under the CPSA, FHSA, and PPPA. CPSC regulations implementing these statutes may be found at Title 16 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and are available on the Commission s website. 

AAPCC-TESS American Association of Poison Control Centers-Toxic Exposure Surveillance System ALT Alanine aminotransferase ARDS Adult respiratory distress syndrome AST Aspartate aminotransferase BUN Blood urea nitrogen ECG Electrocardiogram INR International normalization ratio NAPQI A-acetyl-/>-benzoquinone-imine PPPA Poison Prevention Packaging Act (of 1970)... 

Poison Prevention Packaging A Textbook for Pharmacists and Physicians. Publication number 384. Washington, US Consumer Product Safety Commission, 1999 available at http //www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/ pubs/384.pdf accessed January 9, 2004. 

One other Act, the Poison Prevention Packaging Act 1970, is now having wide influence on child-resistant safety packaging and is dealt with separately in Chapter 11. 

In 1970, the Poison Prevention Packaging Act was passed in the USA and since that time has steadily increased the number of substances covered by safety packaging to include all prescription medicines, and an increasing number of non-prescription and household products. 

The FHSA was amended hy the Child Protection Act of 1966, the Child Protection Toy Safety Act of 1969 and the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970. For the most part, the purpose of these amendments was to strengthen the provisions of the FHSA which apply to toys and other products used hy children. 

Which of the following drug products are exempt from poison prevention packaging ... 

The term unit-of-use packaging when referring to poison prevention packaging describes which of the following ... 

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