Scientific Aspects of Refrigeration

Abstract

ON July 12, a conference on "Refrigeration" organized by the British Association of Refrigeration was held in the rooms of the Royal Society. On the previous day, meetings of the Technical Board and Commissions of the International Institute of Refrigeration were held at which eighteen countries were represented. The first paper to the Conference was presented by Dr. A. K. Balls of the Food Research Division, U.S. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. It dealt with enzyme action in food products and at low temperatures. In the subsequent discussion Dr. L. J. Harris of the Nutritional Laboratory, Cambridge, Dr. Katherine Coward of the Pharmaceutical Re-search Laboratory, and Miss M. Olliver took part. Prof. Prescott of Boston presented a paper prepared by Messrs. R. R. Jenkins and D. K. Tressler of the N.Y. State Agricultural Experimental Station, Geneva, N.Y., and G. A. Fitzgerald of the Birdseye Laboratories, U.S.A., on vitamin C in vegetables: storage temperatures for frosted vegetables. Dr. Kidd of the Low Temperature Station, Cambridge, read in abstract a paper by himself and Dr. Moran on atmospheric control in the preservation of foodstuffs.