Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Meat Division and successors: Registered Files: Meat and Livestock Distribution (MEA Series)

Files dealing with the import and distribution of meat, including some on international agencies and agreements, negotiations with other countries on quotas of meat imports; production, distribution and marketing in the UK, liaison with UK interests, and retail prices; legislation and consequent administrative changes, including the establishment of the Meat and Livestock Commission; defence stockpiling; and meat research.

The series includes some papers of the Technical Advisory Committee on Meat Research and the Committee of Enquiry into the Marketing and Distribution of Fatstock and Carcase Meat.

Further records dealing with meat marketing policy are in MAF 194

From 1983 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food