Flexible packaging structure with a built-in opening and reclose feature

A resealable packaging structure for housing products wherein the entire packaging structure comprises a laminate comprising:

• an outer oriented polypropylene layer and an inner polyethylene terephthalate layer that are coextensive across substantially their entire areas, each of the layers having an upper surface and a lower surface and wherein, other than in an unadhered tab portion of the outer layer, the outer layer lower surface is adhered to the inner layer upper surface over substantially their entire surfaces, the laminate further comprising a repeatedly openable and closeable flexible structure which comprises, prior to an initial opening:
• a permanently adhered portion and a releasably adhered portion;
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• a first score line in the laminate defining a laser-scored outer layer opening portion and a second score line in the laminate defining an inner layer opening portion wherein the outer layer opening portion is larger in area than the inner layer opening portion and extends beyond a periphery of the inner layer opening portion, and wherein the outer layer opening portion comprises the tab portion;
• a non-detachable flap having a releasable perimeter that is resealable to the inner layer upper surface, the flap comprising the outer layer opening portion and the inner layer opening portion;
• wherein the inner layer upper surface comprises a first marginal region in the releasably adhered portion of the laminate and surrounding the second laminate score line,
• the outer layer lower surface comprising a second marginal region in the releasably adhered portion of the laminate that defines the releasable perimeter;
• wherein the first marginal region of the inner layer is releasably adhered to the second marginal region so that the flap may be repeatedly opened to allow access to the products housed within the resealable packaging structure by releasing the first and second marginal regions and repeatedly closed to prevent access to and exposure of the products by sealing the first and second marginal regions.