Packaging with pre-formed plastic web including user-graspable tear tab

Packaging formed with a pocket configured to contain an item and made from a pre-formed plastic web from which a user-graspable tear tab extends to enable removal of the item from the packaging, comprising:

• a front lidding sheet formed with front outer and front inner boundaries, the front inner boundary defining a pocket-receiving aperture, the front lidding sheet having between the front outer and front inner boundaries a front lidding surface region that includes a releasable section with no adhesive or a low tack adhesive proximal to the front inner boundary and an adhesive section proximal to the front outer boundary;
• a back lidding sheet formed with a back outer boundary and confining an interior region spatially overlapping the pocket-receiving aperture, the back lidding sheet having between the back outer boundary and the interior region a back lidding surface region that includes a releasable section with no adhesive or a low tack adhesive proximal to the interior region and an adhesive section proximal to the back outer boundary;
• a plastic web positioned between the front and the back lidding sheets, the plastic web in the form of a pocket depending from a flange from which a tear tab outwardly extends through the releasable sections of the front and back lidding surface regions, the flange having first and second flange surfaces, and the pocket having an opening with a boundary circumscribed by the flange, the pocket sized to pass through the pocket-receiving aperture with the first and second flange surfaces of the flange positioned between the releasable sections of the front and back lidding surface regions;
• a score line boundary formed in one of the front and back lidding sheets to circumscribe or partly circumscribe at least a majority of the pocket-receiving aperture at a location proximal to a junction boundary of the adhesive and the releasable sections of the one of the front and back lidding sheets;
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• an adhesive material bonding together the adhesive sections of the front and back lidding surface regions to form a unitary package in which an item contained in the pocket can be removed by a user pulling the tear tab to tear open the packaging along the score line boundary.