Frozen Foods Consultative Group

Abstract

To ensure the fullest co-operation and collaboration between the various research organisations engaged in the field of food, and also that inquirers will be directed to the best sources of information, the Frozen Foods Consultative Group was set up last year. It consists of representatives of research organisations, official and semi-official, under the chairmanship of the director of food investigation, Dr. Franklin Kidd. The objects of the Group are in the main the exchange of information on research investigations in progress on the preservation of food by quick-freezing processes so as to prevent overlapping and to discover gaps in research programmes. The terms of reference are : (a) to table and discuss the results of investigations into new developments in methods of preserving food by freezing ; (b) to consider the planning of further investigations (each organisation to retain its own independence and the responsibility for its own programme) ; (c) to maintain contact between investigators in such fields as packaging and engineering which bear on preservation by freezing ; (d) to direct inquirers in industry to the best sources of information. The following research organisations and stations are represented : Low Temperature Research Station, Torry Research Station and Ditton Laboratory (all of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) ; Scientific Adviser‘s Division, Ministry of Food ; British Food Manufacturing Industries Research Association ; Printing, Packaging and Allied Trades Research Association ; British Baking Industries Research Association ; Fruit and Vegetable Preservation Research Station, Chipping Campden. The Group has power to invite to its meetings representatives of other organisations such as the Refrigerated Cargo Research Council, the Institute of Refrigeration and the Food Manufacturers Federation. The secretary of the Group is Mr. P. R. P. Claridge, Food Investigation Organisation, Lloyds Bank Chambers, Hobson Street, Cambridge.