Sealed for your protection...
I believe it started in 1982 when some people were poisoned from taking Tylenol that had cyanide in them. After those horrible episodes, all manufacturers changed the way their packaged products.From the official story, one man attempted to extort $1 million from Johnson & Johnson, the makers of Tylenol. His attempt miserably failed and he served more than 10 years of a 20 year jail sentence.
Some had important titles like "Tamper resistant packaging" that made me laugh as it didn't 'resist' anything. I did find one British company actually had a correct statement "Tamper evident" In that, any attempt to open the package clearly showed someone tampered with the product.
To eliminate buyer fear of purchasing products, another catchy widely used phrase read "Sealed for your protection" but, who are they kidding... it was sealed for THEIR protection as no one wanted to be sued for insufficient product warning.
Even condom packaging was changed as someone could easily damage a package with a pin raising the risk of disease or pregnancy. In that case, I believe those products should be labelled "Sealed for your projection"
Get it... your projection !!
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Anything I buy that has extra sealing I look at it carefully to make sure the label wasn't glued back on.
The wording is wrong because as you say it's not tamper resistant.
When you buy boots the label says water resistant, not waterproof. Meaning the rain will probably slide off the boot but there's no guarantee that it won't soak through the boot.
Six biscuits later you have to throw away enough cardboard and plastic to fill a wheely bin.
An entire quarter of the store is unwrapped fruits and vegetables.