The National Food Survey

The National Food Survey has been a British Institution for forty years now. It was started by the Ministry of Food in July 1940 ‘to assist the Government when considering the measures necessary to mitigate the effects of wartime food shortages’, and has subsequently been expanded by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food in order to ‘keep a continuous check on the food consumption and nutrition of all sections of the population, so providing a factual basis for decisions on food policy.’