HC Deb 17 December 1971 vol 828 c222W
Mr. Greville Janner

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether he will request the British Standards Institute to inquire into and to establish a standard of effectiveness for child-resistant containers.

Mr. Alison

My Department has recently been asked by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain to support a request to the British Standards Institute that a committee be established to devise standards for testing such containers. In view of the likelihood that there will be a need for guidance to pharmaceutical and other interests about containers which come on to the market, my Department has conveyed this request to the Institute and has indicated its support for it.