Patent ID: 7521497

Claim:
A resin composition, which comprises: a saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate resin, from 0.1 to 3000 ppm, based on the total amount of the saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate resin, of a compound having a molecular weight of at most 1000 and having at least one conjugated double bond, from 10 to 5000 ppm of at least one second compound selected from the group consisting of higher fatty acid amides and fatty acid salts, expressed as the ppm of free fatty acid relative to the total amount of the saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate resin, and from 10 to 5000 ppm, of a boron compound, expressed as the ppm of elemental boron in said boron compound relative to the total amount of the saponified ethylene-vinyl acetate resin, wherein the saponified ethylene vinyl acetate resin has a methoxy group content ranging from 0.0005 to 1 mol % based on the total moles of monomer units in the resin, an ethylene content ranging from 5 to 60 mol % based on the total moles of monomer units in the resin, and a degree of saponification of at least 85 mol % based on the number of moles of vinyl acetate monomer units in the resin.