Whiter and Better Bread for Britain
(Rec. 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Sept. 18. The flourmillers have been given permission to reduce the wheat extraction rate from 90 per cent, to 85 per cent, from September 22. In announcing this the Minister of Food (Mr John Strachey) added that bread rationing would be removed immediately it was safe to do so. The reduction of the extraction rate will mean whiter bread of better quality and a substantial increase in wheat offals for livestock. It is regarded as the preliminary to the suspension of bread rationing. The extraction rate before the war was 70 per cent. It was raised to 80 per cent, during the war, to 85 last February, and fin* ally to 90 in May.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 September 1946, Page 8
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