Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Scientific Advisor's Division and successors: Registered Files, Defence (SAD Series)

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Reference: MAF 291
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Scientific Advisor's Division and successors: Registered Files, Defence (SAD Series)
Description:

The series contains files of the Scientific Advisor's Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food relating to the defence aspects of the storage and preservation of food (especially by dehydration), nutrition, emergency catering and the effects of radiation on foodstuffs. Some files relate to the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science.

Some files have been re-registered from the SA/D file series: MAF 98
Date: 1939-1980
Related material:

Related papers will be found in the Food Supply Defence Planning records in MAF 250

For papers on dehydration see MAF 353
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: SAD file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Food, Scientific Advisors Division, 1948-1955
Physical description: 299 file(s)
Access conditions: Open unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1991 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Accumulation dates: 1956
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

The projects selected by the ministry bore on contemporary and potential ministry requirements in relation to national defence and included special methods for the control of environmental conditions in ministry warehouses, the study of packaging problems to control corrosion of metal containers, and the development and ultimately the limited production of dehydrated foodstuffs at the Ministry of Food Experimental Factory, Aberdeen. Production continued under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food until the closure of the factory in 1961.

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