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Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Foods Branch and successors: Food...
Catalogue reference: MH 56
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MH 56
This series contains correspondence and papers of the Foods Branches and successor of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health relating to the regulation and inspection of food, foodstuffs, shellfish beds and milk, and matters of...
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MH 56
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Title (The name of the record)
- Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Foods Branch and successors: Food Regulation and Inspection, Correspondence and Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1850-1967
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains correspondence and papers of the Foods Branches and successor of the Local Government Board and the Ministry of Health relating to the regulation and inspection of food, foodstuffs, shellfish beds and milk, and matters of nutrition. Includes papers of the Departmental Committee on Food Law, 1931 to 1933, the Advisory Committee on Nutrition appointed in 1931, the Standing Committee on Medical and Nutritional Problems (1941-1957) and its successor, the Committee on Medical and Nutritional Aspects of Food Policy (later the Committee on Medical Aspects of Food Policy) appointed in 1957, and other committees. Most of the files were registered in the 93401-93449 series of the Ministry of Health; there are also files registered with numbers in 103000, 110000 and 160000 series and some of these were subsequently re-registered in the 93400 series.
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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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160,000 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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- Local Government Board, Foods Branch, 1871-1919
- Ministry of Health, Foods Branch, 1919-1951
- Ministry of Health, International Health, Food and Nutrition Division, 1951-1968
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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594 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C10899/
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Local Government Board and Ministry of Health: Foods Branch and successors: Food Regulation and Inspection, Correspondence and Papers