In order to provide a non-woven fiber fabric which is improved in comparisonwith the state of the art, also, in particular, in the form of a flat materialor aspart of a flat material which can be used as a biodegradable material inmedicine, in particular, as an implant or carrier material for living cells(tissueengineering) but also a non-woven fiber fabric which can be used in foodtechnology in a variety of applications, in particular, as a preliminaryproductfor foods, it is suggested that the non-woven fiber fabric contain fibersconsisting of a gelatin material, wherein the thickness of the fibers is onaverage 1 to 500 µm and wherein the non-woven fiber fabric has a pluralityofareas, at which two or more fibers merge into one another without any phaseboundary.
