Does This Package Need Child-Resistant Packaging? (16 CFR 1700.14)
Whether a drug package needs child-resistant packaging under 16 CFR 1700.14(a).
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Example
- Substance or kind of product
- Acetaminophen, oral
- Total amount in the package, in the unit the row names
- 7800
Result: Special packaging is required.
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What you enter
- Substance or kind of product
- Total amount in the package, in the unit the row names
- Iron or fluoride, the concentration of the element
- Iron, the form of the product
- The package contains no other substance subject to the section
- Every active ingredient was approved over the counter on an application before January 29, 2002
- For a prescription, a request for a non-child-resistant package
How this is calculated
Citation
16 CFR 1700.14(a): substances requiring special packaging, each with its own per-package threshold, and the oral prescription drug exemptions of paragraph (a)(10). 15 U.S.C. 1473(b): a non-complying package only when the order directs it or the purchaser asks. Read the sources: 16 CFR 1700.14 ↗, 15 U.S.C. 1473 ↗
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