Insect pests of food ; the control of insects in flour mills / [by J. A. Freeman and E. E. Turtle] ; with a foreword by the Director of Infestation Control.

  • Great Britain. Ministry of Food.
Date:
1947
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Credit: Insect pests of food ; the control of insects in flour mills / [by J. A. Freeman and E. E. Turtle] ; with a foreword by the Director of Infestation Control. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    FOREWORD The National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour Milling Industry, through their Technical Education Committee, published in 1930 an excellent pamphlet by Mr. Sebert Humphries entitled “Pests in. Wheat and its Products.” When, in 1944, it was proposed by the National Joint Industrial Council that the work should be revised Mr. Humphries graciously surrendered any claim to undertake this task, considering that the best interests would be served if the responsibility could be accepted by those who had been identified with more recent research and practice in. this field. This courteous gesture on his part enabled me, after consultation with Mr. C. A.. Loombe,C.B:E., and Dr, T:.Moeran, CB, D.Sc. PhD. to mcnde, ase hae wished to do, a work on the control of infestation in flour mills in the series of Ministry publications on the subject of infestation, at the same time satisfying the desire of the National Joint Industrial Council to whom I render acknowledgment for their accommodating spirit in the matter. Thus the charge fell upon Dr. E.yE. Turtle and Dr. J. A: Freeman, who are respectively Chief Chemist and Chief Entomologist of the Infestation Control Division of this Ministry. ‘Trained in the Imperial College of Science and ‘Tech- nology under Professor J. W. Munro, D.Sc., who has so greatly advanced knowledge in this field of science, they came to the Ministry of Food from the Pest Infestation Laboratory of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. They have been identified with the development of the Ministry’s scientific and technical service on infestation in all its aspects and have full access to the valuable scientific data, largely built up to their plan, furnished by the field scientific service. The Authors might well have been excused had they laid special emphasis on high scientific standards. ‘They are to be commended for confining their efforts to the production of a work of economic value to the practising flour miller and to the student of flour milling practice. It is but bare justice to them that it be recognised that, in taking this course, they have deliberately refrained from discussing important scientific aspects of the general problem and have addressed themselves solely to the factors affecting the flour miller. The general student should keep in mind that the case might be presented quite differently where there are considerations other than those met with in flour milling. I am glad to record that Mr. C. A. Loombe and Dr. T. Moran join me in com- mending this work as a practical and readable contribution to knowledge for which the Authors are to be thanked. W. McAuLey GRACIE, Director of Infestation Control. MINistRY OF Foon, Infestation Control, 98, High Holborn, W.C.1. September, 1946. IV