Buy a full case and the price per unit drops automaticallyRequest a sample
AccountCart0
All ContainersBottlesJarsCaps & ClosuresPumps & SprayersTubs & PailsJugsDroppersTinsTubesAccessories
Industries
Learn
All Containers›Shop by use case›Nail›Child resistance›Acetonitrile, and the bottle sizeShop all nail →
Child resistance

Acetonitrile, and the bottle size

Updated

On this page9
The trigger is per container, so the fill volume is part of the test.

The requirement

Household glue removers in a liquid form containing more than 500 mg of acetonitrile in a single container. No percentage, no viscosity qualifier, no dosage form exception. A mass, in a container.

Which makes the arithmetic unusual

Concentration multiplied by fill volume. A remover at a given strength might sit under 500 mg in a 10 mL bottle and over it in a 30 mL one, so the answer differs across a range of the same product.

Nail glue remover is the product

Which is why this is a nail paragraph. It sits alongside the methacrylic acid entry as the second nail-specific item in the child-resistant packaging list.

So every size needs its own calculation

And a size added later needs one too. That is the specific failure this paragraph produces: a compliant small bottle, a larger bottle added for value, and nobody recomputes.

A smaller bottle is a genuine strategy here

Unlike a percentage threshold, a mass threshold can be managed by fill volume. That is a legitimate design response and it is worth knowing before committing to a size.

Acetonitrile is seriously toxic

Which is why the figure is low and why the paragraph exists. The packaging question sits on top of ordinary hazard communication duties for a shipped container of a hazardous chemical.

Check what your remover actually contains

Not every nail glue remover is acetonitrile-based, and some use acetone or other solvents instead. The paragraph names acetonitrile specifically, so the first step is the supplier specification rather than an assumption about the category.

Ask what the remover is actually built on

Acetonitrile, acetone and other solvents all appear in nail glue removers, and the paragraph names only acetonitrile. The supplier specification settles it in a line, and an assumption about the category settles nothing.

References

16 CFR 1700.14(a)(18), Glue removers containing acetonitrile: household glue removers in a liquid form containing more than 500 mg of acetonitrile in a single container. law.cornell.edu
16 CFR 1700.14(a)(15) on solvents for paint or other similar surface-coating material at 10 percent or more benzene, toluene, xylene or petroleum distillates under 100 SUS, and 16 CFR 1700.15, the poison prevention packaging standards: the packaging must keep working in actual contact with the substance and across the openings and closings customary for its size, at not less than 85 percent child-resistant effectiveness without a demonstration and 80 percent after one. law.cornell.edu
29 CFR 1910.1200, Hazard Communication, which sets what a shipped container of a hazardous chemical carries and requires a safety data sheet. law.cornell.edu
Written from federal regulation and from measured catalog data, not from a salon. Whether a formula crosses 5 percent methacrylic acid or 500 mg of acetonitrile is a question about your formula and your container size, and the percentages here are the test rather than the answer. Nothing on these pages certifies a package as child-resistant.