Innovative Child-Resistant Packaging for Pharmaceutical Solid Dosage Forms

The major oral solid medicines are sold in blister and strips packaging, which are packaged in a carton box. Children, who manage to open such boxes, while unsupervised, are in great danger of being poisoned by swallowing the contents. A CRP usually requires a special trick to open it. The aim was to design and validate the performance of innovative CRP system with unique features. Materials used were the plastic grade, click lock system, and blister pack. The test conducted on test panels of 100 healthy children between 42 and 51 months were asked to open a pack. Each panel divided into 3 groups, viz. 30 children of 42–44 months, 40 children 45–48 months, and 30 children 49–51 months. The panel of 100 healthy adults divided into 3 groups, viz. 25 adults 18–40 years, 25 adults 40–59 years, and 50 adults 60–70 years. Results shown only 6% of children succeeded to open CRP, while 94% failed to open CRP within 5 min. In the case of adults, 96% succeeded to open CRP without imposing any difficulties. There was a successful development of a prototype of CRP, which can used for the packaging of pharmaceutical products. CRP deprived children to have access of medicated packaging system, which resulted in devoid of any poisonous effect to the children.