Excerpts from the report Preface: This report is one of a number evaluating new packages and shipping containers and new methods of packing agricultural products in them. Most of these reports were concerned with packaging fresh fruits and vegetables. The study on which this report is based is part of a broad program of research aimed at improving marketing efficiency and expanding markets for farm products. Prepackaging frozen cut-up chickens at processing plant level promises to be a means of supplying better quality chickens to consumers at lower marketing costs, although the methods of prepackaging cut-up chickens with various shrink films at processing plants are still in the early stages of development