Series
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Scientific Advisor's Division and successors:...
Catalogue reference: MAF 291
What's it about?
MAF 291
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...
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 291
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Scientific Advisor's Division and successors: Registered Files, Defence (SAD Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1939-1980
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Description (What the record is about)
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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
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Related papers will be found in the Food Supply Defence Planning records in MAF 250
For papers on dehydration see MAF 353
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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)
- SAD 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)
- Ministry of Food, Scientific Advisors Division, 1948-1955
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 299 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open unless otherwise stated
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 1991 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
- 1956
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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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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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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10691/
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 Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Scientific Advisor's Division and successors: Registered Files, Defence (SAD Series)