Series
Ministry of Food and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Food Standards...
Catalogue reference: MAF 260
What's it about?
MAF 260
This series contains files of the various divisions of the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food dealing with food standards and food labelling, including standards of hygiene in food processing. The series deals...
Full description and record details
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 260
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Food and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Food Standards Divisions: Registered Files, Food Standards (FS and FDA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1942-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains files of the various divisions of the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food dealing with food standards and food labelling, including standards of hygiene in food processing. The series deals mainly with the administration of the Food and Drugs Act 1955 in respect of additives, contaminants, preservatives and labelling. Many files in this series concern the preparation of regulations for particular foodstuffs under this act and the reports, minutes and papers of the Food Standards Committee, its sub-committees, panels etc appear in numerous files. Also in this series are files relating to co-operation or relations with other organisations concerned with food standards, such as the Ministry of Health and the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission.
Some records of the Ministry of Food, Food Standards Group were re-registered into the FS series from MAF 101
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
Files in this series are in former reference order within these accessions: 1-205, 206-342, 343-440, 441-576, 577-935.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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From 1975 the ADF series was used for some food standards work.
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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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FS and FDA 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, Fisheries and Food, Food Safety and Science Group, 1997-1998
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Safety Group, 1989-1997
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Standards and Hygiene Division, 1955-1958
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Standards and Science Division, 1970-1972
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Standards Division, 1972-1981
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Standards Division, 1988-1989
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Standards, Hygiene and Slaughterhouse Policy Division, 1958-1964
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Standards, Science and Safety Division, 1964-1970
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Joint Food Safety and Standards Group, 1998-2000
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Standards Division, 1981-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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1097 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1984 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1957 onwards
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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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The minister was advised by the independent Food Standards Committee (1947, reconstituted 1960), for which the Food Standards Divisions acted as technical and administrative secretariat.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10660/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
Records created or inherited by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Departments,...
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Ministry of Food and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Food Standards Divisions: Registered Files, Food Standards (FS and FDA Series)