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UNDER the title of "Insect Pests of Food : The Control of Insects in Flour Mills" (London : H.M. Stationery Office. 7s. 6d. net), the Ministry of Food has recently issued a useful 84-page practical bulletin by J. A. Freeman and E. E. Turtle. The authors are, respectively, chief entomologist and chief chemist of the Infestation Control Division of the Ministry. The bulletin deals with those insects and mites that affect the flour miller : it describes the measures that can be adopted in order to prevent infestation and how to control such insects should they manage to establish themselves. It is divided into three main sections, namely, methods of prevention and control ; life-histories of insects and mites ; and infestation in the mill. The losses which these creatures inflict on the industry may be assessed as damage to wheat ; interference with productive processes ; contamination and spoiling of finished products and loss of goodwill and trade. reputation. The methods of control that are described are only those which have been examined by the Ministry and thoroughly proved in practice. It should not be inferred, however, that these methods are in any sense static. New work is continually going on, and, as examples, may be mentioned that which is being done in assessing the value of D.D.T. and of benzene hexachloride (‘Gammexane') in this connexion. The bulletin is very well illustrated by numerous half-tone plates and text-figures.
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Insect Pests of Flour. Nature 161, 554 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161554c0
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