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Milk Marketing Board: Milk Quality Files
Catalogue reference: JV 6
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JV 6
This series details the measures taken by the Milk Marketing Board to promote improved hygienic and compositional quality of milk, particularly the operation of various milk quality incentive schemes. Also included in this series are records of...
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- JV 6
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Title (The name of the record)
- Milk Marketing Board: Milk Quality Files
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1933-1994
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series details the measures taken by the Milk Marketing Board to promote improved hygienic and compositional quality of milk, particularly the operation of various milk quality incentive schemes. Also included in this series are records of the Cook Committee on the Composition of Milk; milk quality liaison with producers and distributors, specifically the Joint Milk Quality Committee; Milk Marketing Board milk quality organisation and procedures; and premiums paid for Channel Islands milk.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Not Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 131 file(s)
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- Open
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The various incentive schemes operated by the Milk Marketing Board to promote improved hygienic and compositional quality, as well as saleability, of milk included: the Accredited Producers' Scheme (1935); the Tuberculosis (Attested Herds) Scheme (1935); the Hygienic Quality Scheme (1964); the Antibiotics in Milk Price Deduction Scheme (1966); the Voluntary Sediment Testing Scheme (1973); the Butter Fat Testing Scheme (1957); and the Compositional Quality Scheme (1964). Milk was sampled at dairy laboratories, and better quality milk rewarded by higher premiums paid by the Milk Marketing Board to the producer. The Milk Marketing Board's liaison chemists checked the sampling was properly carried out by the dairies.
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Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- For details of the role played by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and other authorities in ensuring milk hygiene, see Sir John Winnifrith, The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (The New Whitehall Series, No 11; 1962), pp. 181-183.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C9986/
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