Who this is for

Who buys these containers

Pharmacies and dispensing practices, compounders, veterinary practices, supplement and botanical sellers whose products reach households with children, and anybody repackaging something that falls under the special packaging rules. Also people who simply want a closure a toddler cannot work.

The distinction that matters

The standard tests a package: a specific closure on a specific container, as a system, against panels of people. Buying a closure described as child resistant and putting it on a bottle does not produce a tested package, and nothing we sell is a certified package.

Which is not to say the closure is pointless

A CR closure on a sensible container is meaningfully harder for a small child than a plain cap, and for a product that is not legally required to be in special packaging that may be exactly what you want. The error is calling it compliant.

If you are legally required to use special packaging

Then you need a package that has been tested, and that is a service you buy from a laboratory or a supplier who has already done it for that combination. This property explains what that involves rather than providing it.

What else these containers have to do

Light protection and moisture control, because the contents are usually sensitive to both, and a label surface that carries a lot of required text. Those are the subject of the containers section.

What this property is not

It is not advice on whether your product requires special packaging, which depends on what is in it and is set out in the regulations rather than inferable from the category.

The honest summary

We sell components that can form part of a compliant package and a lot of containers that suit dispensing well. If you need certification, this property tells you what to go and buy elsewhere, which is more useful than pretending otherwise.

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