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Department of Health and predecessor: Registered files of the Advisory Committee...
Catalogue reference: JA 1422
What's it about?
JA 1422
This series contains records relating to the microbiological safety of food, including working groups relating to listeria, salmonella, campylobacter and food-borne viral infections. The records also contain papers of the Advisory Committee on...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- JA 1422
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department of Health and predecessor: Registered files of the Advisory Committee on Microbiological Safety of Food and the Food Advisory Committee
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1983-2000
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the microbiological safety of food, including working groups relating to listeria, salmonella, campylobacter and food-borne viral infections. The records also contain papers of the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food (ACMSF).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Alphanumerically by departmental prefixes and by the original file reference within each prefix.
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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Due to how records were administered by the Food Standards Agency, other ACMSF files are 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)
- AWF, MSF, NEB
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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)
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- Department of Health, 1988-1988
- Department of Health and Social Security, 1968-1988
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 148 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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From 2026 Food Standards Agency
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Food and drink
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Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- Records were inherited by the Food Standards Agency from the Department of Health when it was established and received the remit for overseeing the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food.
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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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This series is an artificial accumulation of files apparently originating from various parts of the Department of Health and its predecessor, the Department of Health and Social Security. Their provenance was not known at the time of transfer to The National Archives. Some papers originate from the Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food or from working groups on specific topics.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C19933212/
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