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Gas-barrier property is a most important factor for food packaging. Now polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) resins are still in wide use as gas-barrier films. However, PVDC resins as packaging materials have been declining in face of various environmental problems they pose. Under these circumstances, ethylene vinyl alcohol co-polymer (EVOH) films, polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) -coated polypropylene films, MXD6 nylon resins, and silica-or alumina-coated PET films are becoming the mainstream for gas-barrier purposes.
Recently, various types of oxygen scavengers have been developed and applied as active packaging materials. PET bottles having oxygen barrier or scavenging properties are now used for plastic beer bottles in Europe and United States. EVOH and MXD6 nylon are used as the oxygen barrier materials. As the oxygen scavenging materials, the blend of MXD6 nylon and cobalt salt are used for PET bottles.
In Japan, oxygen scavenging PET bottles are used for plastic tea bottles.
