Child Resistant Packaging

The History of Child Resistant Packaging

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The idea of child resistant packaging was first introduced in the s, when the leading cause of injuries amongst children under five was ingestion of harmful substances. In , the United States passed legislation that required harmful products and medications to increase safety measures. 

After this law was passed, President Nixon signed the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) into law. This required packaging for medications and harmful household substances to have better safety measures. From this, child resistant packaging was invented. 

While the current cannabis market in the United States is a patchwork of law, ordinances, and regulations, one thing that virtually all medicinal and recreational cannabis laws have in place is a provision, stating that all packaging must be child resistant (CR). We can debate clear v. opaque packaging until the cows come home but regarding child safety, there is no debate.

How did CR packaging come about?

After a long history of accidents in the United States involving children opening household packaging and ingesting the contents, Dr. Henri Breault invented the child-resistant locking closure for containers in . Soon after, the United States Congress passed the Poison Prevention Packaging Act of (PPPA), authored by Senator Frank E. Moss of Utah, which gave the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to regulate consumer packaging. Today, almost all U.S. cannabis laws reference the PPPA as a foundation for state packaging regulations.

Although child-resistant lids are not perfect, there is strong evidence that use of child-resistant lids has reduced child poisoning rates in the United States substantially. Still today though, according to the Center for Disease Control, more than 300 children in the United States are sent to the emergency room each day, and two children die, as a result of being poisoned. It&#;s not just chemicals in the home marked with clearly marked warning labels that can be dangerous. Everyday items in the home, such as household cleaners and medicines (think medicinal marijuana), can be hazardous to children as well. As we all know, these days a medical prescription could include marijuana concentrates, pre-rolls, and edibles and, traditionally, medication dosing mistakes and unsupervised ingestions are among the most common ways that children are poisoned.

How is this applied to cannabis products?

Now, let&#;s look at this issue more deeply through the lens of cannabis. Has medical marijuana legalization increased the number of pediatric cannabis exposure cases? A study from the Regional Center for Poison Control and Prevention in Massachusetts attempted to tackle that very question.

According to the study, there were 218 calls related to cannabis exposure received by poison control centers in Massachusetts, constituting 0.15% of all calls concerning children and teenagers. The number of calls regarding single-substance cannabis exposure more than doubled from 29 calls in the four years before medical cannabis legalization to 69 calls four years after legalization went into effect.

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The study concluded that &#;states liberalizing marijuana policies should consider strengthening regulations to prevent unintentional exposure among young children and enhancing efforts to prevent use by teenagers, with particular attention to edible cannabis products and concentrated extracts.&#;

So, packaging for pre-rolls, edibles, cannabis flower, and concentrates righteously falls in a very well established zone for food, medicine, and other consumer packaged goods.

2 main types of CR closures

As we now know, child-resistant packaging is special packaging used to reduce the risk of children ingesting hazardous materials. Since we are a pre-roll packaging company, we will discuss different child-resistant closures through the lens of that packaging, but the mechanisms discussed apply to all cannabis packaging.

Child-resistant closures for cannabis pre-roll packaging require two motions to open, making removal by a child difficult but achievable by an adult. The regulations are based on protocols of performance tests of packages with actual children to determine if the packages can be opened. Additional package testing is used to determine if older individuals or people with disabilities have the ability to open the same packages.

The most common motions are &#;Push Down & Turn&#; and &#;Squeeze Lock Closures&#;. If the closure is the Push Down & Turn variety it usually consists of two pieces. The inner piece being a continuous-thread cap. The Squeeze Lock type of closure usually consists of a lid that is squeezed on both sides to release the lid from a set of tabs or its nested position like with a single CR tube or &#;doob tube&#; as it is commonly referred to.

Doob tubes offer CR simplicity.

Doob tubes are single-use pre-roll containers designed to keep pre-rolls fresh and secure. It features a Squeeze Lock closure on the cap, which means the cap is nested securely in the tube with enough resistance to make it too difficult for a child to open but simple enough for an adult. When you want to open the tube, squeeze it between two fingers to force the cap up and pop it out. A small piece of plastic will keep the lid attached to the tube for re-closing the tube if necessary. The doob tube is one of the most common you see in the pre-roll market because it is cheap and the CR mechanism is extremely effective. There are also a ton of size and color options, making this a very accessible and customizable packaging option.

Super seals are a triple threat.

Super Seal pre-roll tubes are a triple threat: child resistant, tamper evident, and airtight. The first thing you notice about the Super Seal Pre-Roll Tube is its sleek, tapered silhouette and its natural fit in the hand, but the real beauty of this plastic pre-roll tube is all in the cap. When the cap is sealed during production it simultaneously creates an airtight, tamper-evident seal that is also child-resistant after opening, leveraging a Push Down & Turn safety cap. Some states require that cannabis packages be tamper evident (meaning it is obvious if the product has been opened post production) in addition to being child resistant, so this tube is a match made in heaven.

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