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