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Certification
Tested to the
federal standard.
Every line is certified to 16 CFR 1700.20. Here is what that protocol actually measures, and what it does not.
What the protocol tests
16 CFR 1700.20 is the federal protocol for child-resistant packaging. It measures a specific package configuration against two panels: children under five, and adults aged fifty to seventy.
The pack has to defeat the first group and not the second. Both halves matter — a container a senior cannot open fails the standard just as surely as one a child can.
Why it certifies a package, not a supplier
Certification runs per package configuration. A given mechanism at a given size in a given material is what passes, not the company that made it.
This is why "we are CR certified" tells you nothing about the size you are about to order. It is a claim about a factory, and the standard does not certify factories.
What we publish
We publish which reports cover which sizes, so you can match the certificate to the SKU you are buying rather than taking a blanket claim on trust.
Ask any supplier for the same. If the answer is a single certificate covering an entire catalogue, the certificate is not doing what you think it is.
The protocol
What the test actually involves.
- Child panel
- 200 children aged 42–51 months, tested in pairs
- Test periods
- Two of five minutes, with a demonstration between them
- Child threshold
- At least 85% must fail to open before the demonstration, and at least 80% after it
- Senior panel
- 100 adults aged 50–70
- Senior threshold
- At least 90% must open the pack and correctly resecure it
- Scope of a pass
- One configuration — a single mechanism, at a single size, in a single material
Figures are the thresholds set out in 16 CFR 1700.20. Testing is carried out by an independent laboratory, not by us and not by the factory.