Table 2.

Carvacrol content in the different films as measured by Thermal Gravimetric Analysis (TGA) (the number in parenthesis indicate the standard deviation obtained from at least three independent experiments).

Polymer Films	No. of Layers	Pre-Processing Content of Carvacrol (% w/w)	Post-Processing Content of Carvacrol by TGA (% w/w)
(LDPE/carvacrol)/EVOH	9	4.8	3.2 (0.1)
(LDPE/carvacrol)/EVOH	17	4.8	3.1 (0.1)
(LDPE/carvacrol)/EVOH	33	4.8	3.4 (0.1)
(LDPE/carvacrol)/EVOH	65	4.8	2.9 (0.2)
(LDPE/[HNTs/carvacrol])/EVOH	9	4.8	3.2 (0.1)
(LDPE/[HNTs/carvacrol])/EVOH	17	4.8	3.4 (0.2)
(LDPE/[HNTs/carvacrol])/EVOH	33	4.8	3.2 (0.1)
(LDPE/[HNTs/carvacrol])/EVOH	65	4.8	3.3 (0.1)