There's been a lot of discussion geared towards requiring vendors to use child safety caps or child-proof caps (depending on which you prefer) on all e-liquid bottles sold as they're a deterrent and they may be required at some point should the FDA push through with their regulations or publish new amendments that will require them.
With that in mind, a group of us sat down last night to discuss this. I'm all for preventative measures (and I'm sure the majority of you are as well), though each of us began looking at the dropper caps all too common on any glass bottle. The caps are plastic, the tube is often glass or borosilicate (some are plastic) and the actual suction is rubber (i.e what creates the vacuum to pull e-liquid into the tube) - more often than not, it's a lighter rubber to ensure it's easy to squeeze and drip.
Looking at the bottles further, we each began pulling on the rubber to see how easy it'd be to pull it from the cap, thus circumventing the child safety cap and getting what is in the bottle, out. I then handed an empty, unused bottle to a long-time friends' child and asked them to open the bottle without removing the cap. Nothing was in the bottle, it was 100% empty (just to make confirm) - they were 4 years old. The only other instructions was not to smash or attempt to break the bottle since it was glass.
Like myself and others, the child pulled the rubber cap right out of the bottle with relative ease. Had there been anything in that bottle, it would have went everywhere as the child would have most likely turned it upside down or began to sling it around (in the event of the child being younger).
What are your thoughts? I'm asking as many vendors are moving to glass bottles with droppers. Some of those are not child proof, some are, though the vast majority of these bottle caps suffer from the same easy removal of the rubber insert. I see child proof caps for what they are, and I'm sure they work for some and deter some from being able to gain access to what's inside, but it seems for dropper bottles, child proof caps don't provide the same prevention.
Ultimately, parents, i.e. us vapers, are the ones responsible for keeping these bottles away from our children (I'm a parent too) - and it's our responsibility to teach our children not to touch what they don't know about, but things happen and it's not always cut and dry do or don't - most kids will do given the chance.
With that in mind, a group of us sat down last night to discuss this. I'm all for preventative measures (and I'm sure the majority of you are as well), though each of us began looking at the dropper caps all too common on any glass bottle. The caps are plastic, the tube is often glass or borosilicate (some are plastic) and the actual suction is rubber (i.e what creates the vacuum to pull e-liquid into the tube) - more often than not, it's a lighter rubber to ensure it's easy to squeeze and drip.
Looking at the bottles further, we each began pulling on the rubber to see how easy it'd be to pull it from the cap, thus circumventing the child safety cap and getting what is in the bottle, out. I then handed an empty, unused bottle to a long-time friends' child and asked them to open the bottle without removing the cap. Nothing was in the bottle, it was 100% empty (just to make confirm) - they were 4 years old. The only other instructions was not to smash or attempt to break the bottle since it was glass.
Like myself and others, the child pulled the rubber cap right out of the bottle with relative ease. Had there been anything in that bottle, it would have went everywhere as the child would have most likely turned it upside down or began to sling it around (in the event of the child being younger).
What are your thoughts? I'm asking as many vendors are moving to glass bottles with droppers. Some of those are not child proof, some are, though the vast majority of these bottle caps suffer from the same easy removal of the rubber insert. I see child proof caps for what they are, and I'm sure they work for some and deter some from being able to gain access to what's inside, but it seems for dropper bottles, child proof caps don't provide the same prevention.
Ultimately, parents, i.e. us vapers, are the ones responsible for keeping these bottles away from our children (I'm a parent too) - and it's our responsibility to teach our children not to touch what they don't know about, but things happen and it's not always cut and dry do or don't - most kids will do given the chance.
. I normally see prices of .30-.40 cents for a 30ml plastic bottle with a CP cap. Glass bottles are often as low as .16 and maybe .20-.25 for a dropper cap (since they are often sold individually). If not cheaper, they cost the same, so no vendor should really be charging more for glass or plastic over the other. I can understand wanting options though 
