Prospects of using edible and biodegradable protective films for foods

By the year 2001 at the latest all packaging on the EU market should be manufactured according to the European Parliament and Council Directive 94/62/EC on packaging and packaging waste (Ref. 1). The requirements, ie. the criteria, of the directive, are the following: preventing the production of packaging waste, reusing packaging, recycling and other forms of recovering packaging waste, the safe disposal of packaging waste.