Child-Resistant Cartons: MM Pharma & Healthcare’s Integral Solution
In the pharmaceutical industry, packaging safety and accessibility are more critical than ever. Child-Resistant Cartons (CRCs) protect the most vulnerable patients while offering practical and reliable solutions for laboratories and CDMOs. As more treatments are administered at home, ensuring packaging is safe for children and accessible for older adults has become an essential quality standard.
Our solutions: safe and certified
At MM Pharma & Healthcare, we provide CRC cartons that have already passed rigorous certification, including F-1 Level and senior-friendly testing. This ensures our packaging meets the highest international safety standards, preventing children from accessing the contents while remaining easy for adults to use.
CRC and Senior-Friendly Certification: Key Differences
To be considered truly child-resistant, packaging must pass a highly demanding certification process. In the U.S., CRCs must comply with the Poison Prevention Packaging Act (PPPA) and the US 16 CFR 1700.20 certification while in Europe, the ISO 8317 standard applies internationally. During testing, child-resistant packaging must prevent at least 85% of children aged 3½ to 4¼ from opening it, demonstrating that the contents are effectively protected from young users.
In addition to child-resistant certification, senior-friendly (SF) packaging is tested separately to ensure that at least 90% of adults aged 50–70 can open and reclose it easily.
This dual approach guarantees both child safety and usability for older adults, providing clients with reliable, regulation-compliant products.
Flexible and adaptable packaging for every need
Our durable CRC cartons are suitable for tablets, injectables, and medical devices, including complex formats that historically lacked child-resistant packaging. They are flexible and customisable, adaptable to different products and client requirements.
With these solutions, laboratories and CDMOs can offer safe, differentiated, and regulation-compliant products, while enhancing their reputation and value proposition in the pharmaceutical market. The combination of innovation and certification makes our CRC cartons a strategic choice for safe and efficient pharmaceutical packaging.
