the present invention include e g ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer anhydride grafted ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer anhydride grafted ethylene alpha olefin copolymer anhydride grafted polypropylene anhydride grafted low density polyethylene ethylene methyl acrylate copolymer and anhydride grafted ethylene methyl acrylate copolymer oxygen scavengers suitable for commercial use in articles of the present invention such as films are disclosed in u s pat no 5 350 622 and a method of initiating oxygen scavenging generally is disclosed in u s pat no 5 211 875 suitable equipment for initiating oxygen scavenging is disclosed in u s pat no 6 287 481 luthra et al these patents are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety according to u s pat no 5 350 622 oxygen scavengers are made of an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon and transition metal catalyst the ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon may be either substituted or unsubstituted as defined herein an unsubstituted ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon is any compound that possesses at least one aliphatic carbon carbon double bond and comprises 100 by weight carbon and hydrogen a substituted ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon is defined herein as an ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbon which possesses at least one aliphatic carbon carbon double bond and comprises about 50 99 by weight carbon and hydrogen suitable substituted or unsubstituted ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbons are those having two or more ethylenically unsaturated groups per molecule e g a polymeric compound having three or more ethylenically unsaturated groups and a molecular weight equal to or greater than 1 000 weight average molecular weight examples of unsubstituted ethylenically unsaturated hydrocarbons include but are not limited to diene polymers such as polyisoprene e g trans polyisoprene and copolymers thereof cis and trans 1 4 polybutadiene 1 2 polybutadienes which are defined as those polybutadienes possessing.