Abstract:
A gas barrier multilayer film includes a film substrate, a layer formed on at least one surface of the film substrate and made of an inorganic compound, and a gas barrier layer formed on the layer made of the inorganic compound and formed of a mixture, which contains an acrylic acid polymer made of poly(meth)acrylic acid or a partially neutralized product thereof wherein a degree of neutralization of the poly(meth)acrylic acid with zinc is not larger than about 25 mol %, a sugar or starch, and a hypophosphite wherein the hypophosphite is present at about 1 mass % to about 15 mass % of a total solid content of the mixture.