“…Glycerol is frequently used as a plasticizer, at concentrations ranging from less than 1 to 20%. Another trend that became evident in recent years is the addition of natural extracts as antimicrobial or antioxidant agents, including essential oils [9, 12, 29, 172, 177-179, 181, 185, 186, 188, 192, 193, 195, 198, 202] and different plant and fruit extracts [39,48,142,144,164,167,174,182,184,187,194,201].…”