Two-layered packaging material for foodstuffs one layer of which comprises a polymer blend

A two-layered packaging material for the direct contact packaging of food products, said material comprising cloth coated with a binary mixture of 50 to 100 parts by weight of a first acrylate emulsion polymer having a glass transition temperature, Tg.sub.max, below 0.degree. C. and up to 50 parts by weight of a second acrylate emulsion polymer having a glass transition temperature, Tg.sub.max, above 30.degree. C., said first acrylate emulsion polymer comprising

• (a) at least 90 weight percent, based on the total first polymer, of a lipophilic monomer component comprising at least one member selected from the group consisting of esters of acrylic acid and of methacylic acid with a lower alkanol, and from 0 to 10 weight percent, based on said lipophilic monomer, of at least one further comonomer, the methyl methacrylate content of the first polymer not exceeding 40 weight percent of the total first polymer;
• (b) a hydrophilic monomer component having acidic properties, in an amount from 0 to 5 weight percent, based on the total first polymer;
• and
• (c) a crosslinking monomer component in an amount from 0 to 7 weight percent, based on the total first polymer;
• and said second emulsion polymer comprising
• (a) at least 95 weight percent, based on this total second polymer, of a lipophilic monomer component comprising more than 60 weight percent, based on this total lipophilic component, of methyl methacrylate, and of less than 40 weight percent, based on this lipophilic component, of at least one further member selected form the group consisting of esters of acrylic acid and/or of methacrylic acid with a lower alkanol, and of from 0 to 10 weight percent, based on this lipophilic component, of a further monomer;
• and
• (b) of less than 5 weight percent of a hydrophilic monomer component having acidic properties.