Abstract: A meat product package including an enclosing film having an EVA-containing inside surface and an in situ aqueous medium-cooked meat product in adhering relation to the film inside surface as the meat contacting and adhering surface. Starch particles are preferably dispersed across the meat contacting surface which has been both irradiated and subjected to corona treatment. A method for corona treating a thermoplastic tube inside surface in which small particles within the flat tube separate opposite surfaces providing voids, and the electric discharge crosses the flat tube through the voids.

Abstract: A biaxially heat-shrinkable food packaging film comprises a three component blend wherein the major constituents are a polyethylene such as VLDPE or LLDPE or a mixture thereof, EVA and an ethylene alpha-olefin plastomer copolymer of a density below about 0.90 g/cm.sup.3.