The document outlines requirements for notifying recipients of packaging transfers about compliance with regulations, including information on closures and components needed to pass performance tests. It also requires documenting procedures for assembly, closure instructions, and pressure differential guidance. Test reports must be prepared after qualification and retention tests, maintained where packaging is produced and tested for two years, and made available to users or regulators upon request. Reports must include facility information, packaging details, test descriptions and results.

16. 178.2(C) CONTINUED This information must include any procedures to be followed, including closure instructions for inner packagings and receptacles, to effectively assemble and close the packaging for the purpose of preventing leakage in transportation. For packagings sold or represented as being in conformance with the requirements of this subchapter applicable to transportation by aircraft, this information must include relevant guidance to ensure that the packaging, as prepared for transportation, will withstand the pressure differential requirements in 173.27 of this subchapter.

17. (l) Record retention . Following each design qualification test and each periodic retest on a packaging, a test report must be prepared. The test report must be maintained at each location where the packaging is manufactured and each location where the design qualification tests are conducted, for as long as the packaging is produced and for at least two years thereafter, and at each location where the periodic retests are conducted until such tests are successfully performed again and a new test report produced.

18. In addition , a copy of the test report must be maintained by a person certifying compliance with this part. The test report must be made available to a user of a packaging or a representative of the Department upon request