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A package is essentially a substitute for a human hand. It frees the hand for other work by ‘holding’ a handful of possessions—isolating them from other matter and securing against loss. The modern package serves also to identify its contents and often to embellish them. Almost all wares tend to deteriorate under the influence of some extraneous factor; properly selected wrappings will delay this process by excluding that factor.
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Paine, F.A. (1991). Packaging with flexible barriers. In: Paine, F.A. (eds) The Packaging User’s Handbook. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1483-7_9
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