“…Therefore, GRS (generally recognized as safe) substances such as sorbic acid (Cagri, Ustunol, & Ryser, 2001;Limjaroen, Ryser, Lockhart, & Harte, 2003), benzoic acid, propionic acid (Quattara, Simard, Piette, Bégin, & Olley, 2000b;Soares, Rutishauser, Melo, Cruz, & Andrade, 2002) and its salts (Buonocore, Del Nobile, Panizza, Corbo, & Nicolais, 2003;Choi et al, 2005;Ozdemir & Floros, 2001) nisin (Dawson, Hirt, Rieck, Acton, & Sotthibandhu, 2003;Grower, Cooksey, & Getty, 2004;Lee, Soon, Lee, Park, & Lee, 2004;Melo, 2003), and others have been incorporated into polymers for the production of antimicrobial packaging. Weng and Hotchkiss (1993) incorporated 1% of benzoic anhydrous into low-density polyethylene Wlms, inhibiting completely the growth of Rhyzopus stolonifer, Penicillium spp.…”