NUTRITION PROBLEM
Food Standards Improve In Britain (British Official Wireless.) (Received September 16, 5.5 p.m. Rugby, September 15. Sir Kingsley Wood, Minister of Health, speaking to-day at Plymouth on the problem of nutrition, said that the consumption of food of all kinds in the United Kingdom had grown considerably. To-day it was probably over 25,000.000 tons yearly. The consumption of eggs., fruit, vegetables aud other products so important to good nutrition bad greatly increased. There had undoubtedly been at the same time a considerable improvement in food standards which had been achieved generally by the health authorities and their professional advisers. Sixty years ago some 15,000 samples only were submitted annually to public analysts and over 19 per cent, were found to be adulterated or not up to standard. Last year over 143,000 samples were submitted —the highest on record —and the percentage adulterated or not up to standard was only a little over 5 per cent.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 11
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157NUTRITION PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 302, 17 September 1936, Page 11
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