Glossary & Acronyms

Child Resistant Packaging

A2LA - American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
USCPSC - The United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
USEPA - The United States Environmental Protection Agency
ISO - The International Standards Association
CEN - Comité Européen de Normalisation
EN – European Normalization
CSA - The Canadian Standards Association
PPPA – The Poison Prevention Packaging Act
CPSA – The Consumer Product Safety Act
CPSIA – The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act
FHSA – Federal Hazardous Substances Act
FIFRA – Federal Insecticide Fungicide and Rodenticide Act
CRP – Child-Resistant Packaging
PPP – Poison Prevention Packaging
Special Packaging – Child-Resistant, Senior-Use Effective packaging
CRE – Child-Resistant Effectiveness
SUE – Senior-Use Effectiveness
F-value – unit access number at which the regulatory hazard level is reached
IOPP - Institute for Packaging Professionals
ISR – Institute for Standards Research

A2LA - American Association for Laboratory Accreditation
ISO/IEC 17025:2005 – General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories
FDA - Food and Drug Administration
USP – United States Pharmacopeia
Ph.Eur. (EP) – European Pharmacopoeia
JP – Japanese Pharmacopoeia
CTFA – Now known as Personal Care Products Council
AAMI - Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
MLT – Microbial Limit Test. Now known as Microbiological Examination of Nonsterile Products USP Chapters <61> and <62>, Ph.Eur. 2.6.12 and 2.6.13 and JP 12
TAMC – Total Aerobic Microbial Count
TCYMC – Total Combined Yeast & Mold Count
HPC – Heterotrophic Plate Count. Term is typically when testing water