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Series
Ministry of Food: Services Department: Food Standards Group
Catalogue reference: MAF 101
What's it about?
MAF 101
This series contains papers of the Ministry of Food divisions responsible for food standards, labelling, food hygiene, welfare foods and special diets and some earlier papers on these subjects originating in the Ministry of Health and Ministry of...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 101
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Food: Services Department: Food Standards Group
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1873-1966
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains papers of the Ministry of Food divisions responsible for food standards, labelling, food hygiene, welfare foods and special diets and some earlier papers on these subjects originating in the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Housing. Most of the papers are dated between 1940 and 1955. Exceptionally a few papers outside this date range have been included to preserve continuity.
The series includes some files re-registered from the FH file series: MAF 282
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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 Ministry of Food files dealing with food standards were re-registered into the FS file series; see
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- Ministry of Food, Services Department, Food Standards Group, 1947-1955
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1168 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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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
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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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The Services Department of the Ministry of Food came into being at the time of the general re-organisation in January 1947 and comprised four groups and a secretariat. The Food Standards Group was responsible for the formulation of standards of quality for food, the protection of the consumer against misleading claims, the promotion of measures relating to hygienic conditions for the manufacture and handling of food and the allocation and distribution of welfare foods.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10501/
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