§ Sir R. Glynasked the Minister of Health what are the terms of reference of the panel of food experts and chemists which has been established to inquire into the problem of food storage in time of national emergency; and what steps the Government propose to take to expedite this inquiry so that a report may be available as soon as possible, and this House informed of its purport?
§ Mr. StanleyI have been asked to reply. I understand that the Food Group of the Society of Chemical Industry has recently formed a Nutrition Panel for the study of food in relation to health and disease, and that the question of food storage in a national emergency will come within the scope of the work of the panel. I have, however, no information on this subject apart from what has been published in the Press.
2687WI may add that the Food (Defence Plans) Department of the Board of Trade, since its establishment at the end of 1936, has received from the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research advice on a number of suggestions which have been made to the Department as well as on other proposals respecting the storage and preservation of various kinds of foodstuffs.