Along with Nordic colleagues, she has for ten years been working for a global standard.
– We had members who could not eat a good herring on midsummer if they had someone who helped them to open the can. We figured that if our members get into a package so it’s probably more people who have problems.
The packages must be under the new standard open easily for older persons and persons with disabilities. But even for the care strongman can most difficult opened packages arouse anger and irritation. A few years ago was named the year’s worst packaging, a fire blanket, through a contest on the Internet at the initiative of a person as a day needed a pair of scissors to open the packaging to its new scissors.
Another example of “impossible “packaging is child safe – and in many cases adult safe – pharmaceutical packaging.
Swedish pharmacy association’s president describes it as a huge problem.
– The problem is that we can not fully choose the package that fits the patient, says Johan Waller.
Within the pharmacies are a procurement system, in which the authority TLV decide which medicines copy within groups of similar drugs that all pharmacies have to sell the coming month.
– Then it can become a packaging that is difficult to open for many groups, even for us who are perfectly healthy, says Johan Waller.
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