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Legislation
- For the European Commission to adopt regulations in all Member States to enforce the compulsory use of child resistant packaging for pharmaceutical products such as children’s aspirin and paracetamol preparations, as well as for non-pharmaceutical products.
- For the European Commission to adopt regulations for building codes of new buildings to provide a lockable storage cabinet in each apartment or home, as well as carbon monoxide monitors.
EU Collaboration
- For the European Commission to support a European campaign on the topic of child poisoning prevention which delivers key, consistent messages across Europe about the use of and safe storage of cleaners and chemicals in convenient and lockable units, the importance of child resistant packaging, as well as improve the community’s awareness of poison dangers.
- For poison centres in Europe to standardise and link their data on poison injuries in order to make recent statistics available and detailed.
- For industry to have child poisoning prevention in mind when designing products so that products are not attractive to children and are more resistant to access by children.
This information has been taken from the Fact sheet on Poisoning published by the Alliance in October 2006. This fact sheet is available here.
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