Be alert to secondary use of hazardous chemicals packaging materials

[China Packaging Network] According to a company's staff, an export cardboard drum packaging manufacturing company in order to save production costs, a chemical raw material imported from a chemical company has been put into production idle after the packaging of chemical raw materials in cardboard drum packaging At the low price, the dismantled upper and lower bottom round wooden blocks and the sealed metal clamps were purchased, and the paperboard, which was produced by the company itself and printed with its packaging specifications and batch numbers, was rolled into a circular ring. The used metal clamps are painted with silver paint and assembled into new cardboard drums, which are then sold to other export chemical companies that use the packaging.


It is understood that the purpose of this move is to reduce production costs, and then pull down the price, so as to win comparative price advantage in the same industry, increase sales, take the initiative in the market competition.


To this end, the inspection and quarantine department conducted an interview with the company and analyzed the negative effects of such an operation. This enabled the company to recognize the seriousness of this practice, destroyed the packaging materials purchased, and organized packaging companies within its jurisdiction. In the forum, a hazard analysis was conducted on the hidden dangers of this case, and it is necessary to draw lessons from it. Do not make the same mistake in order to save costs.


The purchase of cheap packaged packaging materials for hazardous products for secondary packaging has no positive effect other than the saving of production costs. This has two negative consequences:


First, product quality cannot be guaranteed. In order to prevent the inspection and quarantine authorities from spotting such problems during on-site inspections, the inspection and quarantine personnel carry out on-site inspections of a certain number of packaging barrels that are inspected by the inspection and quarantine personnel, and randomly sample a specified number of samples for laboratory testing. In order to reduce costs, some of the drums checked and inspected by inspection and quarantine personnel will be exchanged for a part of the next inspection, and then the same amount of drums that have been combined to buy some low-cost materials that have been packaged with chemicals will be mixed in the batch. In the goods, the packaged goods are sold to an export chemical company that uses the drums. This lack of integrity and business ethics to the inspection and quarantine departments to bring the risk of inspection and supervision at the same time, but also to the packaging of the use of enterprises to bring packaging quality and safety hazards.


The second is that it may contain toxic and hazardous substances accumulated during the last packaging. For example, if the purchased packaging material was packaged as a pesticide during the last time it was packaged, the toxic and hazardous components of the pesticide may adhere to the material. If the packaging manufacturer uses a packaged pesticide Assembling new cardboard drums and selling them to chemical companies that use the packaging to contain pharmaceutical products will not only affect the efficacy of pharmaceutical products, but also pharmaceutical products that are contaminated by pesticides will also bring new health hazards to patients.


To this end, inspection and quarantine departments must remind relevant businesses to operate in good faith, and must not purchase low-cost, inferior-quality, or even harmful packaging materials in order to save costs and squeeze competitors. Such illegal operations make them penalized and discontinued production is small. Injury and impact will saturate the entire industry. Each company must have a high sense of social responsibility and law-abiding to fulfill its due responsibility for the sound development of the industry; government regulators will increase penalties for violations, blacklist companies with illegal records, and work hard to eliminate illegal activities. The occurrence of behaviors regulates and protects the health, safety and sustainable development of dangerous goods and packaging industries.

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