FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3794, 11 August 1932, Page 7

FOOD FOR BRITAIN

Costs a Million Daily

SUPPLIES FROM THE DOMINION

RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS

MADE 1!V RESEARCHERS

OPPORTUNITY FOR FROZEN PORK ! A list, and N./.. Cable* llugby, Aug. 0. Experiments for llie i>reservution of the llavour and freshness ami the vitamin value of food under refrigeration and their importance to the United Kingdom, whose imports of Tend still cost £1,000,000 daily, are dealt with in the* report for 1031 of the food investigation of the Board cf Scientific and Industrial Research. The work is being aided by a consultative group of representatives of the Dominions, India, the Colonial Of lice, the Km pi re Marketing Board and the shipping interests, and £50,000 yearly, equivalent to the cost of one hour’s imports of foodstuffs to tin* United Kingdom, is being spent < u research, which covers fruit, meat, lish, dairy p-ocluecs ami canning. The experiments show that the transport to tin* Unit til Kingdom of nnsmoked. milk cured bacon from Australia and New Zealand is impracticable under tin* existing commercial conditions, but frozen pork can be* successfully shipped and used as pork for the manufacture of bacon. It is anticipated Hull the imports irom. the Dominions to the United King iom of animal tissues for the preparation of medicinal products can be largely increased; Experiments are being conducted with new methods of gas storage, which have already been Successful with apples, and for the prevention of mould growths on oranges by the introduction of ammonium carbonate crystals into tin* storage chamber.