Description | Lists those present. Gives Committee business -- a letter from Dr W Morley Fletcher, asking H H Dale to attend in his place -- letters from the Boards of Trade and Agriculture requesting the memo on alcohol -- the advisability of issuing saccharine to the public -- the milling standard -- withdrawl of a proposal to draw up a statement on the composition of food constituents -- the organisation of experimental investigations on food and nutrition -- the alleged outbreak of 'jam cancer' in Hamburg -- the wastage of household fats and suggested experiments in towns to collect fats -- letters from America suggesting the importation of plantains -- appointment of a sub-committee to consider alcohol and munitions -- the possibility of substituting maize starch for wheat in industrial purposes -- a resolution to appoint T B Wood as a go-between the Committee and Ministry of Food -- the sugar supply. 'The Committee reported unfavourably on the suggestion that bracken might act as a source of food'. p4-5. |