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

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Reference: MAF 246
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Meat Division and successors: Registered Files: Meat and Livestock Distribution (MEA Series)
Description:

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.

Date: 1952-1984
Related material:

Further records dealing with meat marketing policy are in MAF 194

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: MEA file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 366 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Immediate source of acquisition:

From 1983 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

Accumulation dates: 1955 to 1985

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