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EDITOR, - In her letter about accidental ingestion of methadone by children Michelle Jacobs raised the question of the use of Child resistant containers for liquid medicines.1 Child resistant containers have been used for solid dose medicines for several years, and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain has been trying for some time to extend the use of such containers to liquid medicines.2There has been considerable difficulty in producing a child resistant container - that is, bottle and cap - that can be used for liquid medicines without the cap sticking as a result of the sugar in many of the medicines. Despite the potential difficulties, in 1991 the society advised its members to dispense methadone, as a special case, in child resistant containers.
A new shape for the neck of standard medicine bottles has now been approved by the British Standards Institution, and bottles and caps are
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BMJ 1994 309: 53.[Extract] [Full Text]
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