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RefNoCMB/73/27
LevelItem
TitleMinutes, meeting of the Food Committee
Date15 April 1918
DescriptionLists those members present, plus E S Beaven as representing Sir Daniel Hall. Gives Committee business -- the signing of the last meeting's minutes, a description of the March meeting of the Inter Allied Scientific Food Commission -- consideration of a letter from E H Starling suggesting that olive oil used in wound dressing might be diverted to human use -- assigning Chaston Chapman to look into uses for condemned herrings -- consideration of a letter from Dakin indicating that the US Food Administration has dropped its investigation into high milling standards, and the Committee's response that if higher milling was impossible in the US, wheat flour might be mixed with maize -- a letter from Professor Vito Volterra indicating the Academia dei Lincei's recommendation to the Italian government [about forming a Food Committee] -- discussion on the Ministry of Food's proposal to give female workers a supplementary meat ration -- agreement to urge the Board of Fisheries to look into dogfish as a food source -- adoption of a memo on the diet of the working man -- adoption of an article on the pig as a competitor for human food -- consideration of alcohol from artichokes -- agreement to print a memo on metabolism and rate of cooling -- alteration of the Committee's statement on the prohibition of sugar in biscuits -- consideration of a process for manufacturing bread from potato flour -- adoption of a note on sterilising the wheat berry with quicklime. p235-241.
Extent4pp
FormatTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialMS/527/8/5, MS/527/3/2/7, MS/527/10/12, MS/527/2/2, MS/527/2/4, MS/527/6/2/28
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