VALUE OF FOOD.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20622, 11 August 1932, Page 9

VALUE OF FOOD.

RESEARCH IN BRITAIN. EXPERIMENTAL PRESERVATION. (BKITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS.) EUGBY, August 9. Experiments for the preservation of the flavour, freshness, and vitamin value of food under refrigeration, and their importance to the United Kingdom, whose imports of food still cost £1,000,000 daily, are dealt with in the report for 1931 of the Food Investigation Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Besearch. The work is being aided by a consultative group of representatives of the Dominions, India, the Colonial Office, the Empire Marketing Board, and the shipping interests, and £50,000 yearly, equivalent to the cost of one hour's imports of foodstuffs to the United Kingdom, is being spent on research, which covers fruit, meat, fish, dairy produce, and canning. The experiments show that the transport to the United Kingdom of unsmoked mild-cured bacon from Australia and New Zealand is impracticable under existing commercial conditions, but frozen pork can be successfully shipped, and used as pork, or for tho manufacture of bacon. It is anticipated that the imports from the Dominions to the United Kingdom of animal tissues for the preparation of medicinal products can be largely increased. Experiments are being conducted with new methods of gas storage, already successful with apples, and for the prevention of mould growths on oranges, by the introduction of ammonium bicarbonate crystals into the storage chamber.