REFRIGERATION.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 23 June 1924, Page 9

REFRIGERATION.

INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS. BY OABLS—PRBSB ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT (Received June 23, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 22. The filial session of 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 agreed upon urged the Governments of producing countries to introduce legislation standardising the methods of inspection of refrigerated produce intended for overseas; that the certificates granted by the Governments of producing countries be accepted as final in consuming countries; that an inspection of frozen produce on arrival in consuming countries be confined to that necessary to ensure that the produce is in good' marketable con-, dition. The congress decided to urge the International Institute of Refrigeration to give special attention to fruit preservation, and referred the question of the utilisation of liquid air in the preservation of foodstuffs to the International Cold Storage Institute. A motion was agreed to urging that the pre-cooling of fruit he recommended, but not made compulsory. The next congress meets in Rome in 1927.—Au5.-N.Z. Cable Assni