ICE CREAM MEN
SAVE LIVES OF BRITISH
DIABETICS
The ice cream industry of Great Britain has come to the aid of the considerable number of diabetics in the .country by making sure that they get the insulin which keeps them alive. Insulin, which is made from an extract of pancreatic glands, was formerly a big import and it must be frozen within half an hour of the killing. British slaughterhouses were not equipped for freezing and an acute shortage of insulin seemed imminent. The ice cream men came to the rescue and promptly transferred their freezing machinery to the slaughterhouses, of which there are SOO in the country. The glands are frozen here and they are then taken in motor vans, equipped with refrigerating apparatus, to the cold storage plants of the ice cream merchants. The result is that to-day Britain possesses not only a large and growing reserve of pancreases, spinal cords and thyroid but of bottled blood, to which the scheme has been extended. The big manufacturing" chemists, employed on Government work, are now drawing their supplies of gland material from these stores of the ice cream merchants.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13463, 9 October 1941, Page 7
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190ICE CREAM MEN Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXX, Issue 13463, 9 October 1941, Page 7
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