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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and...
Catalogue reference: MAF 130
What's it about?
MAF 130
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.
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 130
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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, Infestation (I Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1941-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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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.
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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 papers re-registered in
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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)
- I file series
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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)
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- 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
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 170 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- 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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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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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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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- 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.
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1939
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- 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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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10530/
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Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Infestation Control Divisions: Registered Files, Infestation (I Series)
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