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Child resistant closures are an important aspect of pharmaceutical packaging. Due to many accidents involving children opening medicines and other dangerous products and ingesting them, the U.S. Congress passed the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970 empowering the Consumer Product Safety Commission to formulate rules and regulations for safe packaging. It is now mandatory that certain chemicals, household use products and medicines come with C-R closures.

Various C-R closures

All kinds of products need child resistant closures, particularly dangerous or poisonous medicines like nasal or eye drops, or even regular medicines that may either be harmful to children if taken in the wrong dose or are not meant for children. In fact new regulations are in place that affect current packaging for product containing imidazolines – pharmaceutical companies are now required to change the closures into child resistant ones. Some products may be only a few milliliters, while others may need to be sold in large quantities. Among items that can be sealed by such closures are:

· Bottles

· Jars

· Droppers

· Sprays

· Metered dose droppers

· Tubes

Most often child resistant closures need two motions, done at the same time, to open the seal. This is difficult for small children to do, but at the same time, it is important the closures should be such that they can be opened by adults and senior citizens, who may have mobility problems or lack physical strength or be affected by joint disorders.

The closures may be screw-on with different threading options, lug finish, snap closures, reclosable or non reclosable, rigid or flexible. As closures also need to complement the packaging, it is important to find the right closure for your product packages.

At M. Jacobs & Sons we can offer you the child resistant closures that your product and safety rules require. You can select any design and we can source it for you.