Nancy Warner
CEO
Assurpack LLC
Technical and creative pharmaceutical packaging experience. Expertise in CR materials, design, regulatory compliance, and manufacturing
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| 60 minutes | $200.00 |
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Biography
Nancy Gruskin Warner brings over 30 years of packaging experience to the Cannabis industry. She started Assurpack to provide custom engineered child resistant packaging from the pharmaceutical industry to this new and emerging market. Prior to that, she started a contract packaging company - Mina Pack - to provided customized unit dose packaging services to the pharmaceutical and health care markets. She has a degree in Package Engineering and has worked on the corporate pharmaceutical side as Manager of Package Engineering at a major pharmaceutical company and then moving to the supplier side in business development for the leading pharmaceutical contract packaging companies. Contract packagers operate under the same FDA guidelines as pharmaceutical manufacturers. She has worked with R&D groups, engineering, marketing, quality, supply chain and more to support major new product launches for companies such as Pfizer, Novartis and Bayer for both OTC and RX products. This has provided an in depth understanding of the regulated packaging industry.
Education
BS Package Engineering Michigan State University
High School
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Child resistant packaging has been defined as meeting the Consumer Product Safety Commission test protocol. Design of these packages starts wtih understanding the materials, function, costs and user acceptance. The nature of the test is subjective, because actual children and adults are used for this testing. My suggestion is to start out by working with an ASTM certified testing lab with a lot of experience testing child resistant packaging according to CPSC guidelines. These professionals can give you good advice and guidance on your package before testing. Usually, the best approach is to build multiple steps into the opening feature that a child of the test age does not have the cognitive skills to figure out quickly. The other design feature is to consider the size and strength of the childs hand vs the adult hand and use that information to direct your design. Protect your investment with a patent attorney to make sure you are not using an opening feature that is already patented by someone else. Testing is expensive, so you want to make sure your design will pass the first time. This is not always possible, and you might have to modify and retest for the best possible outcome.
