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age the use of less packaging material (Dodds even more applications for renewable pack-
2007). Biopolymer films may serve as poten- aging materials in the packaging of meat
tial replacements for synthetic films in food products. These products will address the
packaging applications to address strong various technical challenges of MAP and
marketing trends toward more environmen- vacuum packaging and overcome the gas
tally friendly materials, but hydrophilicity is permeability issues required to make such
a central limitation to replacement and full- packaging effective.
scale commercial utilization of biodegrad-
able films (Han et al. 2005). However, a
variety of bio-based materials have been References
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