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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 131
What's it about?
MAF 131
Papers of the Infestation Control Division relating to the control of animal and bird pests, including minutes of the Nature Conservancy.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 131
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Infestation Control Divisions: Registered Files, Control of Animal and Bird Pests (LP/N) Series
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Date (When the record was created)
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1920-1979
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Description (What the record is about)
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Papers of the Infestation Control Division relating to the control of animal and bird pests, including minutes of the Nature Conservancy.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Some files re-registered into
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
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LP/N file series
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Infestation Control Division, Infestation Control Laboratory, 1947-1970
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Pesticides Safety Directorate, 1993-2001
- Pesticides Safety Division, 1988-1993
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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267 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 1971 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Food and drink
- Fishing
- Farming
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1947
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
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Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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From 1 September 1947 the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries resumed all responsibility for infestation control, taking over the Infestation Division from the Ministry of Food as the Infestation Control Division. The division ran the Infestation Control Laboratory to carry out research, and this subsequently set up a Field Research Station at Worplesdon. In 1960 the division was absorbed by the National Agricultural Advisory Service, while the laboratory remained separate until 1970 when it was amalgamated with the Agricultural Research Council's Pest Infestation Laboratory to form the Pest Infestation Control Laboratory within a new Safety, Pesticides and Infestation Control Division. 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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10531/
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