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Ministry of Food and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services...
Catalogue reference: MAF 353
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MAF 353
This series covers all aspects of food dehydration in the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, including administration of the Aberdeen Experimental Factory. Several pieces relating to the factory contain plans...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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MAF 353
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Food and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Divisions and successors: Registered Files, Food Dehydration (DRY Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
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1948-1961
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series covers all aspects of food dehydration in the Ministry of Food and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, including administration of the Aberdeen Experimental Factory. Several pieces relating to the factory contain plans and photographs.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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Further papers on food dehydration are in
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Other DRY files are to be found 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)
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DRY 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, Emergency Services Division II, 1955-1960
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Science and Atomic Energy Division, 1961-1962
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Food Science and Plant Health Division, 1963-1964
- Ministry of Food, Dehydration, 1942-1955
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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23 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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Accumulation dates (The dates the record was accumulated)
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1941 to 1964
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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 1948, a joint Ministry of Food/Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) working party was set up to make recommendations for the development of a viable dehydration industry in the UK and the Commonwealth, following concerns expressed by the Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Defence Science to the Defence Committee of the Cabinet in January of that year. The working party reported in June 1948 and recommended that the Ministry of Food should acquire an experimental factory to work on food dehydration. A site adjacent to the DSIR Torrey Research Station in Aberdeen was acquired, and the newly-constructed factory was officially opened in 1951. The factory, which undertook applied research into dehydration of food, with particular emphasis on defence aspects (ie reducing bulk and weight of stored food, while extending its shelf life) was under the general direction of a Ministry of Food (after 1955 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food) Chief Scientific Officer, but day-to-day staffing and operation was carried out by a service agency (MacFisheries, a subsidiary of Unilever). In 1961 the experimental work of the factory was completed, and from then on it was involved in commercial production.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10753/
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This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
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Ministry of Food and Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Emergency Services Divisions and successors: Registered Files, Food Dehydration (DRY Series)