Dispenser and packaging for bandage strips

Packaged rolls of bandage strips comprising:

• a series of bandage strips disposed in end-to-end relation;
• packaging material surrounding the bandage strips for maintaining the strips in the end-to-end relationship and in a sterile condition;
• transverse seal means in the packaging material for maintaining the strips sterilely separate from each other;
• line of weakness means in the packaging material, each located forward of a respective seal means for aiding separation of the packaging material and a corresponding bandage strip from the remainder of the roll while maintaining the bandage strips in the remainder of the roll in a sealed, sterile condition, and
• wherein the length of a strip is greater than the distance between the seal means forward of the strip and the line of weakness means behind the respective seal means so that the strip is easily removable from the packaging material after separation of the packaging material along the line of weakness means.