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invented the child-resistant bottle cap.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=carl-e-stracener&pid=153889467|title=Col. Carl Stracener obituary|publisher=''Alexandria (Louisiana) Daily Town Talk''|accessdate=September 25, 2011}}</ref>

invented the child-resistant bottle cap.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/thetowntalk/obituary.aspx?n=carl-e-stracener&pid=153889467|title=Col. Carl Stracener obituary|publisher=''Alexandria (Louisiana) Daily Town Talk''|accessdate=September 25, 2011}}</ref>

A native of Alexandria in central [[Louisiana]], Stracener graduated from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], where he received both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He was commissioned into the [[United States Army]], having attained the rank of colonel.  He practiced primarily at [[Walter Reed]] Medical Center in [[Washington, D.C.]], Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], and Madigan Army Medical Center outside [[Tacoma]], [[Washington]]. Stracener was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division in the [[Vietnam War]], where he instituted programs to aid the native Vietnamese people.  In 1975, as the war ended in [[communist]] triumph, Stracener directed Operation Babylift, which spared many children from disease and death.  He received the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service medals.<ref name=obit/>

Stracener graduated in 1948 from Bolton High School in his native Alexandria in central [[Louisiana]]. He received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]]. He was commissioned into the [[United States Army]], having attained the rank of colonel.  He practiced primarily at [[Walter Reed]] Medical Center in [[Washington, D.C.]], Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in [[San Antonio]], [[Texas]], and Madigan Army Medical Center outside [[Tacoma]], [[Washington]]. Stracener was assigned to the 4th Infantry Division in the [[Vietnam War]], where he instituted programs to aid the native Vietnamese people.  In 1975, as the war ended in [[communist]] triumph, Stracener directed Operation Babylift, which spared many children from disease and death.  He received the Legion of Merit and the Distinguished Service medals.<ref name=obit/>

   

   

Stracener practiced medicine for forty-four years, including thirty-two at the pediatrics department of Madigan AMC.<ref name=obit/> Stracener lived for many years in Steilacoom in Pierce County in western Washington, where he sometimes even made free house calls. His principal work was concentrated in the fields of children's health, the prevention of childhood poisonings, and the education of childcare professionals.<ref name=obit/> Child-resistant packaging stemmed from passage of the [[Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970]], authored by [[U.S. Senator]] Frank E. Moss of [[Utah]], legislation designed to halt young children from accidentally ingesting hazardous substances stored about the house. The law requires toxic, corrosive, or irritative substances to be packaged so that adults can easily open them, but not children under five years of age. The first product so protected, effective August 8, 1972, was [[aspirin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/practices/topic/poisoning/packaging.html|title=Poisoning Interventions: Child-Resistant Packing and the Poison Prevention Packaging Act|publisher=depts.washington.edu|accessdate=February 25, 2012}}</ref> Stracener also conducted research for the later required child safety seats.<ref name=obit/>

Stracener practiced medicine for forty-four years, including thirty-two at the pediatrics department of Madigan AMC.<ref name=obit/> Stracener lived for many years in Steilacoom in Pierce County in western Washington, where he sometimes even made free house calls. His principal work was concentrated in the fields of children's health, the prevention of childhood poisonings, and the education of childcare professionals.<ref name=obit/> Child-resistant packaging stemmed from passage of the [[Poison Prevention Packaging Act of 1970]], authored by [[U.S. Senator]] Frank E. Moss of [[Utah]], legislation designed to halt young children from accidentally ingesting hazardous substances stored about the house. The law requires toxic, corrosive, or irritative substances to be packaged so that adults can easily open them, but not children under five years of age. The first product so protected, effective August 8, 1972, was [[aspirin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/practices/topic/poisoning/packaging.html|title=Poisoning Interventions: Child-Resistant Packing and the Poison Prevention Packaging Act|publisher=depts.washington.edu|accessdate=February 25, 2012}}</ref> Stracener also conducted research for the later required child safety seats.<ref name=obit/>