Is My Products Packaging Child-Resistant And/Or Senior Friendly, As Appropriate?
Does it Cause “Wrap Rage”? Packaging for food no longer just needs to get its job done by being convenient to the consumer, appropriate to its product, and environmentally sound. Food packaging these days must also meet the needs and capabilities of its end users, and also prevent people who should not be able to access the product from doing so. This is no small feat. Although it is primarily the pharmaceutical industry that must make its products and their packaging child-resistant, the food industry needs to take heed as well. As mentioned earlier, the FDA is heavily involved in regulating food packaging and making sure food is safe for consumption and has not been tampered with. Whether a product necessitates child-resistant packaging is an important consideration when choosing your food packaging. Often times, the best thing you can do is to make the packaging tamper-evident, that is, easy for someone to see that the package has been tampered with. As important as making certain f
