Annual Report of Council for 1968

Earlier Annual Reports of this Association have drawn attention to the continually changing pattern of work in the laboratories of our members and have traced its evolution from the detection of gross adulteration of foods a century ago to our concern with the more insidious dangers inherent in our modern environment. It may seem a paradox that, in spite of the virtual disappearance of some of the conditions which led to the appointment of Publii Analysts in the last century to suppress the fraudulent sophistication of food, the need for scientific vigilance to protect the hedth and welfare of the population is as great as ever. Pesticides The foregoing thesis is exemplified by the publication during 1968 of the results of the fust year’s survey of pesticide residues in foods.E This was an interim report on the first systematic attempt in this country, and probably in the world, to assess the daily intake of pesticide residues by the population’ Earlier work had been done on random sam