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Central Science Laboratory: Slough Laboratory Administration: Registered Files (SLA...

Catalogue reference: MAF 807

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MAF 807

This series contains records relating to the Central Science Laboratory Ownership Board and the future structure of the Laboratory

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Reference

MAF 807

Title
Central Science Laboratory: Slough Laboratory Administration: Registered Files (SLA Series)
Date

1992-1997

Description

This series contains records relating to the Central Science Laboratory Ownership Board and the future structure of the Laboratory

Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference

SLA Prefix

Legal status

Public Record(s)

Language

English

Creator(s)
Central Science Laboratory, 1992-2009
Physical description

11 file(s)

Access conditions

Open unless otherwise stated

Immediate source of acquisition

From 2022 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Custodial history

Central Science Laboratory 2001 – 2009, Food and Environment Research Agency 2009 – 2015, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) from 2015

Accumulation dates

1992-1997

Accruals

Series is accruing

Selection and destruction information

3.1.2 – The Structures and Decision-Making Process in Government

Administrative / biographical background

The Central Science Laboratory (CSL) was officially launched in 1992 as an Executive Agency of Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF). In 1994 a larger agency was created merging CSL with the Food Science Laboratories of MAFF?s Food Safety Directorate. CSL was responsible for the delivery of science in support of Government objectives. A new facility which brought together all of the previous laboratory facilities was created at Sand Hutton in York in 1996. In 2009 a new Food and Environment Research Agency was launched at the Sand Hutton site

Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17109001/

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