PRESERVING FOOD

Hokitika Guardian, 12 August 1932, Page 7

PRESERVING FOOD

EXPERIMENTS AT HOjME. OPERATIONS' COVER WIDE / FIELD. RUGBY, August 9. Experiments for the preservation of the' flavour, freshness and vitamin vallue of food under refrigeration and their importance to the United Kingdom, whose imports of food still cost £1,000,000 daily, are dealt with in the report; for 1931 of the Food Investigation! Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.

The work is being aided by a consultative group' of representatives of' the .pominioira, India., , and". Colonial Office, the Empire Marketing Board and'shipping interests. Fifty thousand pounds yearly, equivalent to. the cost of one hour’s imports of foodstuffs tr the United Kingdom, is*being spent on research, which covers fruit, meat, fish, dairy produce and canning. Experiments . show that the transport to the United Kingdom of tin smoked . mild-cttred bacon from Australia and New Zealand is impracticable under existing .commercial. conditions, bu J frozen sorlt can be successfully shipped and used as pork, or for the manufacture of bacon.

It is anticipated that imports from the Dominions to the United Kingdom of animal tissues for the preparation of medicinal' products can be largely increased. . Experiments are heinf conducted with new methods of go? storage, already successful with apples and for the p’evention cf mould growth on oranges, by the introduction o J ammonium bicarbonate crystals intf the storage chamber.