thereby separating upper and lower portions 26 28 of first flange 16 and creating an opening through which product may be filled after the reclosable package or bag 54 is filled the upper and lower portions 26 28 of first flange 16 are joined together again by forming a hard seal 64 away from the peelable seal 62 the positioning of additional sealant 65 if required is shown in fig5 b and the resulting hard seal is formed in the same location as shown in fig5 c while lower portion 28 is shown to the exterior of the upper portion 26 of the first flange 16 this configuration could be reversed with the lower portion 28 to the interior of upper portion 26 additionally various easy open or tamper evident features as well as a slider could be incorporated into this design likewise the fill method could use a one time opening feature with the reclosure feature removed or eliminated a second embodiment of the disclosure is shown in fig6 10 in this embodiment a high burst zipper 70 is used such as is shown in fig6 it should be noted that a high burst zipper 70 could be incorporated into any of the disclosed embodiments the high burst zipper includes first and second profiles 72 74 with respective first and second flanges 76 78 and first and second interlocking elements 81 82 additionally the high capacity characteristics of the zipper 70 are enhanced by the internal segment 80 which joins first flange 76 to second flange 78 segment 80 may be integrally extruded with first flange 76 as described in the above identified u s pat nos 7 621 105 and 7 963 007 and u s published application no 2008 0047228 the lower end of internal segment 80.