Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Infestation Control Divisions: Registered Files, Infestation (I Series)

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Reference: MAF 130
Title: Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Infestation Control Divisions: Registered Files, Infestation (I Series)
Description:

Papers of the Infestation Control Division dealing with general policy and legislation; directions and enforcement; instructional courses; supply and distribution of equipment and pest control material; publicity and exhibition arrangements.

Date: 1941-1980
Separated material:

Some papers re-registered in MAF 44

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: I file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, 1919-1955

Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Infestation Control Division, 1949-1955

Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001

Ministry of Food, Infestation Division, 1942-1949

Physical description: 170 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Custodial history: Records were the responsibility of the Central Science Laboratory from 2001 until 2009 when they became the responsibility of the Food and Environment Research Agency from 2009 to 2015 and then responsibility passed to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in 2015.
Accumulation dates: 1939
Accruals: Series is accruing
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1970 a Pest Infestation Control Lab was set up within a new Safety, Pesticides & Infestation Control Division by amalgamating the previous Field Research Station at Worplesdon and the Agricultural Research Council's Pest Infestation Laboratory. The responsibilities of the division included the administration of statutory controls, the distribution of grants, for the destruction of farm pests, the provision of advice on pest control and research into infestation of all kinds; it also administered the Safety Inspectorate. In 1974 the Environmental Pollution, Pesticides and Infestation Control Division was created, the safety aspects of the old division having passed to a new Agricultural Safety, Training and Wages Division. This arrangement lasted until 1984 when a separate Environmental Co-ordination Unit was established, and a new Pesticides and Infestation Control Division was created. In 1988 this was renamed the Pesticides Safety Division, though it still retained responsibility for both control of pesticides and crop protection. In 1993 the division was established as an executive agency of the Ministry, the Pesticides Safety Directorate.

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