§ 10. Wing-Commander Grant-Ferrisasked the Secretary of State for India what steps are being taken to improve nutrition in India by providing synthetic vitamins and food yeast as additions to a diet mainly of cereals.
§ Mr. AmeryApart from their use by the Services, large supplies of synthetic vitamins have been distributed under medical supervision for the treatment of famine victims in Bengal. World supplies are very limited and there cannot at present be any question of their general use as part of an Indian diet. But the results of experimental administration in Bengal and by the Services are now available to the Government Nutritional Research Laboratory at Conoor which exists to study and recommend possible improvements in nutrition in India. Plans for the production of food yeast and its use in civil and military diet are before the authorities in India and are to be the subject of consultation with experts who will shortly be available in that country.