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THE Report of the Food Investigation Board for 1930 is notable, as in previous years, for the great variety of the researches which have been carried out under the Board's auspices. They are concerned with the changes taking place in meat and fish, fruit and vegetables on storage, especially at low temperatures, with the commercial application of the results obtained, and with the engineering problems involved in the construction and running of large stores. The report notes that the work of the Board has already been effective, in that two commercial gas stores for the storage of apples are now in operation: in one, over a period of five months, the losses during storage of ‘Bramley's Seedling’ apples did not exceed 0.5 per cent. Close touch is kept with investigators in other parts of the Empire: co-operation will be facilitated by the appointment of assessors, representing the Dominions and Colonies, to the Board during the past year.
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The Preservation of Food*. Nature 128, 551–552 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/128551a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/128551a0