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Child Participant Registration

Child must be between 42 and 51 months of age at time of testing.

Thank you for understanding the importance of child-resistant package testing and partnering with our team to keep children safe. Once you submit your information, our team will contact you to schedule a convenient time for testing. For this event, testing will be held under a tent at the Hands on House Children's Museum of Lancaster located at 721 Landis Valley Road, Lancaster PA 17601. Beth Mack will contact you via phone/email to answer questions and schedule your survey appointment.

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The time commitment is minimal, but the benefits are for a lifetime.

Your child's participation in child-resistant package testing is critical during this unprecedented time in history. For the first time in over a decade, we are seeing accidental poisonings on the rise due to children spending so much time in their homes. Essential medicines and cleaning products are unable to reach the marketplace because they cannot be sold until their packaging is certified as child-resistant. 


Take a minute and consider all the over-the-counter medicine, prescription drugs, and hazardous chemicals that are in the average home. Each one has the potential to kill or harm a child from accidental poisoning – this is why child-resistant package testing is so important and why we need your help.


For over 50 years, Bird Dog Marketing Group, LLC has successfully tested the effectiveness of child-resistant closures following the Consumer Product Safety Commission (Poison Prevention Packaging Act), EPA, and FDA guidelines in a multitude of settings. 


 

Hands-on-House Child-Resistant Package Testing:


Location: 721 Landis Valley Road, Lancaster, PA  17601


Dates: 

Wed., August 12th (9 a.m. - 3 p.m.)

Thurs., August 13th (9 a.m. - 2 p.m.)


We will call you to schedule the appointment since testing must be completed in pairs.


Bird Dog Marketing Group will give you $25 for your child's participation AND Hands on House will also receive a $25 donation. Thank you for helping to save children's lives from accidental poisoning!


COVID-19 Safety Guidelines for Testing 

  

We will be following CDC Guidelines to ensure the safety of participants and our employees.


  • Participants, parents, and proctors must wear face masks.


  • 6' social distancing will be implemented.


  • Packages are sanitized prior to survey.


  • Hand sanitizer will be available.


HOW THE PROCESS WORKS

The only way to ensure a package is child-resistant is to have a sampling of children try to open the package. Your partnership is critical to keeping children throughout the world safe from accidentally ingesting harmful drugs and chemicals.


The information and time needed to conduct our research is minimal. During the research process, you are welcome and encouraged to sit in and quietly observe what is being performed.


Our trained proctor works with two children (42-51 months of age) at a time in an area free of distractions. The children are given a package which contains water or placebo (nothing that would harm a child) and are asked to try and open the package.  If no or one child opens the package in 5 minutes, the tester opens the package in front of the children and asks them to try again. Children are not told how to open the package; they are watching as if they might see a parent opening a package. The test continues until the package is opened or the time limit occurs, whichever comes first. 

The results of this testing will help develop better child-resistant packages to keep the contents safe from children. If too many children open the container during the testing, that package will fail the test and not be used to package medicines or harmful chemicals, keeping children safe from potential poisonings. Children will be told about the dangers of opening packages containing medicines and are asked to promise to hand such packages to an adult if they come across one. Children are asked to repeat this back to the proctor to make sure they understand.

"Saving Children's Lives One Test At A Time."

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