REFRIGERATION

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 147, 23 June 1924, Page 7

REFRIGERATION

INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

THE CONFERENCE ENDED,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION,—COPYRIGHT.)

. (RBUTER'S TELEGRAM.) (Received 23rd June, 10 a.m.)

LONDON, 22nd June. During its final session the International Refrigeration Congress adopted a resolution in favour of the standardisation of international units'of cold, and an international agreement on the specification of refrigeration capacity. Other motions, which were agreed to, urged the Governments of producing countries to introduce legislation to standardise -the methods of inspection of refrigerated produce intended for overseas' consumption, that the certificates granted by the Governments of producing countriesjshould be accepted as final in the consuming countries, and that the inspection of frozen produce on arrival in the .consuming countries should be confined to that necessary to ensure that the produce is in .good marketable, condition.

_ It was decided to urge the International Institute of Refrigeration to pay special attention to fruit preservation The question of the utilisation of liquid air in the preservation of foodstuffs was referred to the International Cold Storage Institute.

A motion was agreed to urging that the pre-cooling of fruit be recommended but not made-obligatory. The next congress will meet in.Rome m 1927.