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An over-the-counter human drug product Packaged for retail sale And accessible to the public while held for sale So most of this group is outside it Why quote it anyway A long-term medication cache is the interesting case Which is the same objective by a different route And the shelf answers that part What it does not answer is distinctiveness And the 18 child-resistant closures are a separate question again So read the rest for the mechanism References

Three conditions, and a preparedness kit usually fails all three.

An over-the-counter human drug product

Which is the first condition. A hygiene kit is not a drug product, and a water purification product may be a pesticide or a device rather than a drug.

Packaged for retail sale

The second. A kit assembled for a household, or for a cache, is not packaged for retail sale.

And accessible to the public while held for sale

The third, which is the reason the rule exists. The hazard addressed is a product sitting on a shelf a stranger can reach.

So most of this group is outside it

Which is worth stating first, because the rest of this property quotes a standard that may not apply to what a reader is doing.

Why quote it anyway

Because it is the only federal statement of what a tamper-evident package has to be, and the reasoning transfers to anyone who wants a package to show interference.

A long-term medication cache is the interesting case

One of this group's four leaves. A household repackaging medication for storage is not selling it, and still wants to know later whether a container has been opened.

Which is the same objective by a different route

Not compliance, but the practical question of whether the seal in front of you is the original one.

And the shelf answers that part

53 heat induction seals and 18 pressure sensitive liners out of 128 closures. Both show interference clearly.

What it does not answer is distinctiveness

Which matters for a retail product and matters much less for a container in your own store cupboard.

And the 18 child-resistant closures are a separate question again

A preparedness cache in a household with children raises child resistance, which this shelf does offer, and which is a different standard covered in the pet and veterinary property.

So read the rest for the mechanism

The definition, the two ways to be distinctive, and the placement rule for the statement. All three are useful whether or not the section binds you.

References

21 CFR 211.132(b)(1): "A tamper-evident package is one having one or more indicators or barriers to entry which, if breached or missing, can reasonably be expected to provide visible evidence to consumers that tampering has occurred." The same paragraph requires the packaging to be "distinctive by design or by the use of one or more indicators or barriers to entry that employ an identifying characteristic (e.g., a pattern, name, registered trademark, logo, or picture)", with distinctive by design meaning packaging that "cannot be duplicated with commonly available materials or through commonly available processes." The section reaches an over-the-counter human drug product packaged for retail sale and accessible to the public while held for sale, and nothing here asserts it binds any particular activity. law.cornell.edu

The Davis Pack Supply catalog, measured 19 October 2026. The only tamper-evident capability among the 128 closures indexed to this group is a liner: 53 carry a heat induction seal and 18 a pressure sensitive liner, with 11 F217, 11 foam, 10 Plastis standard, 6 PE foam, 1 F217 and PS, 8 recorded as No Liner and 10 unrecorded. There is no tamper-evident closure and no sealing disc on the shelf at all. We publish the liner type and not whether it carries a printed pattern, name, trademark, logo or picture.

Written from 21 CFR 211.132 and from the catalog as it stood on 19 October 2026. That section reaches an over-the-counter human drug product packaged for retail sale and accessible to the public while held for sale; a kit assembled at home from bulk is not that, and nothing here asserts the section binds any particular activity. The only tamper-evident capability on this shelf is a liner, and we publish the liner type and not whether it carries a printed identifying characteristic, which is the attribute the distinctiveness requirement turns on.