According to the author of this article, Stephen Wilkins Chief Executive, The Child-Safe Packaging Group, maximising that lifesaver, child-resistant containers, will need a pan-European policy for medicine packaging to match regulation EC 1272/2008. Packaging of non-medicines will be governed by Regulation EC 1272/2008, when it comes fully into force in 2015. This stipulates child-resistant packaging on the basis not of what a product is, but what it does. For example, mixtures - and any consumer chemical in this context is a mixture - if causing damage to skin or eyes if splashed, damage to lungs or throat if inhaled, or poisoning if swallowed, must be packaged in child-resistant containers. This regulation will cover the whole EU, and apply to all relevant products; there will be no exceptions.
