{"id":2878,"date":"2015-09-04T11:47:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planet-laundry\/2015\/09\/04\/new-safety-standards-for-laundry-detergent-packets-move-forward"},"modified":"2019-01-28T01:02:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T07:02:32","slug":"new-safety-standards-for-laundry-detergent-packets-move-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/new-safety-standards-for-laundry-detergent-packets-move-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"New Safety Standards for Laundry Detergent Packets Move Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 9px;\" src=\"https:\/\/higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com\/COINLAUNDRY\/UploadedImages\/c449a75a-0253-4615-a455-b9c01adf45da\/abc_ntl_detergent_121019_wg.jpg\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cleaninginstitute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Cleaning Institute<\/a> has announced the approval of a new voluntary standard designed to help reduce liquid laundry detergent packet accidents among children.<\/p>\n<p>The standard is on track for final approval later this month by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ASTM International<\/a>, a forum for establishing technical, consensus-based voluntary standards. The voluntary standard sets guidelines for the labeling and design of packets and packaging for liquid laundry detergent packets aimed at reducing accidental exposures, particularly by children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Manufacturers, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consumer Product Safety Commission<\/a> and consumer advocates came together over the past year under ASTM to evaluate numerous potential safety measures and ultimately chose a strong set of package and product design interventions supported by science and research,&#8221;  said Richard Sedlak, executive vice president, technical and international affairs at the ACI. &#8220;The protective measures in this new standard are designed to help reduce further incidents.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The standard includes a menu of secure package closures designed to challenge the typical strength, mental acuity or dexterity of young children. From this menu, manufacturers can choose a configuration that is effective at deterring child access while ensuring adults are able to open it and completely close it in between uses.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new guidelines, warnings and immediate first-aid instructions if there is an accident will be standardized and prominent on packages.<\/p>\n<p>The laundry packet standard also calls for other changes that were recently enacted in Europe, including: ensure packets can withstand the squeezing pressure of a child; include a soluble film containing a bitter substance; and use a film that delays release of liquid contents so that the bittering substance takes effect.<\/p>\n<p>The laundry packet standard is expected to be published within the next month, at which point manufacturers will work with the CPSC on when changes will transition into the market.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"user-content-hashtag\" href=\"\/search?s=tag:News&#038;executesearch=true\" data-tag-text=\"News\" data-sign=\"#\" data-tag-key=\"b41a2e54-5b67-48a1-931e-c02e2d538d16\">#News<\/a> <a class=\"user-content-hashtag\" href=\"\/search?s=tag:%22Press Releases%22&#038;executesearch=true\" data-tag-text=\"PressReleases\" data-sign=\"#\" data-tag-key=\"4c3d6480-d768-49d0-bb96-6fa16c7d0ac0\">#PressReleases<\/a> <a class=\"user-content-hashtag\" href=\"\/search?s=tag:%22Industry News%22&#038;executesearch=true\" data-tag-text=\"IndustryNews\" data-sign=\"#\" data-tag-key=\"8d8c4a06-20dc-4bf7-9b36-bfca7e0fd5a0\">#IndustryNews<\/a> <a class=\"user-content-hashtag\" href=\"\/search?s=tag:Public&#038;executesearch=true\" data-tag-text=\"Public\" data-sign=\"#\" data-tag-key=\"aacb2a6a-7c01-4bb8-ab55-2dc6ae898dc5\">#Public<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Cleaning Institute has announced the approval of a new voluntary standard designed to help reduce liquid laundry detergent packet accidents among children. The standard is on track for final approval later this month by ASTM International, a forum for establishing technical, consensus-based voluntary standards. The voluntary standard sets guidelines for the labeling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":873,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/873"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4813,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions\/4813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetlaundry.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}