Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Flour: Composition and Nutritive Value (PFC Series)

The Panel on the Composition and Nutritive Value of Flour was set up in 1955 by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Mr D Heathcoat Amory, the Secretary of State for Scotland, Mr J G Stuart, and the Minister of Health, Mr I N Macleod, under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Cohen. Its purpose was to provide an independent authoritative review of the differences in composition and nutritional value of flour of varying extraction rates. The terms of reference given to the panel were: 'In the light of the scientific and medical evidence now available (1) to determine the difference in composition and nutritive value between a. National flour as defined in the Flour Order, 1953; b. flour of extraction rates less than National flour as defined in the Flour Order, 1953, to which the three token nutrients have been restored; c. flour of extraction rates less than National flour as defined in the Flour Order, 1953, to which the three token nutrients have not been restored; and (2) to advise whether any such differences are significant from the point of view of the health of the population'.