Abstract
THE Empire Marketing Board, in establishing a Committee on Infestation of Stored Products, has recognised the importance of dealing with the losses, occasioned both in transit and storage, by insect and other damage to a wide range of foodstuffs. By means of a series of grants made to the Imperial College of Science, the Board has enabled that institution to establish at Slough a special laboratory for stored products research. At present, attention is being mainly concentrated on the insect problems affecting cacao and dried fruits, and on fungus damage to cacao and copra. This work is under the general direction of Prof. J. W. Munro, and, as experience and facilities increase, it will doubtlessly embrace the study of other stored products in addition to those mentioned.
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"Report on Insect Infestation of Stored Cacao." Prepared for the Empire Marketing Board's Committee on Infestation of Stored Products by J. W. Munro and W. S. Thomson . (London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1929.) 1s. 6d. net.
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I., A. Insects Infesting Stored Cacao1. Nature 125, 183 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/125183a0
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