REFRIGERATION.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 416, 27 January 1909, Page 7

REFRIGERATION.

EFFECT OF RECENT CONGRESS; TBtsqitAi-ii—p'uesa association-corviiiaH'r.J ■ (Rec. January 26, 11,30 p.m.) ; PaTlS] January 26. ..The delegates to the International Committee .appointed., by the International Refrigeration Congress •' met at ' Paris, and adopted the association. ; Tha Germans and Austrians alone i-deci-' |-sioas'Jr" 'iv'./i',v V- 'V,'-;---;-!'.. -PERMANENT COMMITTEE AND-ITS WORK. ! The recent Refrigeration . Congress passed '• a resolution in favour of'thevoreation'of a per-' manent international committeo to carry on the propaganda commenced by the congress-un-; HI the: nest conference, jvhich. is itovTmcbt-'in Vienna;'in 1910.. The committeo :will"sit .in Paris, and will, comprise the' organisers of the first-congress and the heads'of--the ,six sections congress. Reports sof. "their proposals will be submitted to. each foreign ' committee for an. opinion. The following are the leading recommendations of the congress:—. ' °- ■ The ~ formation of an international scientific propaganda-:, to. combat a existing prejudices Against • the us& of ohilled or frozsii food produets/ •. ■ •; // .. ■ .. ■ < ;.■ ■ The .Qongress recommends the - establishment ,° .co-operative cold, stores .in the leading-cities the .Continent. ; Also the,; erection, of -more Cold stores, at the ports for the reoeption of imported food supplies; ■ , The _Congress recommends: the iise , of frozen meat for troops m peace and war. •In yiew of the damage caused to meat through long . transit of living animals; the congress recommends that, animate :.be killed and meat:. frozen before transport.; v. The ; , formation, of an ; international soientic committee _to draw up suitable universal. definitions, of units, measures,, eto., -applicable to ■ mi. refrigerating. industry.' ■ -The Congress recommends ' that all foreign Wyernments: subscribe to. the funds, and send students to the Leyden University, , whe'ro oial experiments are. being• conducted : in jrefngerating matters. ; (This. resolutiondoes, not' apply.tq far-distant countries.): .V■;j Ihat, it is _ dosirable' that an international uniform standard of meat inspections be established: and agreed- to by various ■ meat, exporting S i .jmporting , countries, so as to, ensure tho healthy, condition of such meat; ■ .' --: That exaot iscientific data bo obtained- for de-' termimng the conditions, as to time and temR t \ un t er whioh P er lshable products can