Millers National Federation

In 1928 the Wheat Flour Institute was formed. It is the educational division of the Millers National Federation. Its basic function is to halt the trend of declining per capita consumption of flour through education and basic product promotion. The Wheat Flour Institute joins bakers and millers, doctors, dentists, nutritionists, educators, research workers, and editors and writers to gain a merited place for bread on America s family table. In 1 year more than 5,000,000 separate pieces of educational literature were distributed by request from the Wheat Flour Institute. These numerous pieces of literature deal with subjects pertaining to the story of wheat and flour, good food, and human nutrition 37-41),... 

Some publications of a statistical nature issued by the Millers National Federation and made available only to members contributing their own data are listed 28, SO, S4i 86). There were, in addition, these special publications Flour and Feed Laws and Regulations SI), Carrying Charge Chart 29), and List of Flour Brokers S2). Supplementing the above general information media are the innumerable letters, telephone calls, and personal conversations by which the federation staff brings its information... 

The American Association of Cereal Chemists appointed an Abstract Committee to study the problem of abstracts and indexes. Upon the recommendation of the committee, arrangements were made with Biological Abstracts (14 ) to publish a separate section. Section J, Abstracts of Cereals and Cereal Products. This has been published since 1948. Financial support is given by the AACC and the Millers National Federation (12). It is too early to evaluate Section J as a tool. Since it is part of so huge a service it cannot hope to attain the position of a current review-type service. There are no plans for separate indexing the index to the complete edition is included with each section subscription. The December 1951 issue has a Numerical Key to Contents of Section J. The latest subject index to Biological Abstracts is Volume 23, 1949. However, future editorial policy may improve this situation. 

Iron—In 1970, the American Bakers Association and the Millers National Federation asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to triple the amount of iron permitted in the enrichment of flour and bread because there was widespread concern over iron-deficiency anemia in women and children.However, it was strongly opposed by some of the leading blood specialists on the grounds that it might lead to toxic accumulations of iron in the tissues of susceptible people. 

A Senator, I. N. Hooton, G. L. Miller, H. P. Lie, and E. A. Gere, in Proceedings for the Skytop Conference on Computer Systems in Experimental Nuclear Physics, Clearing House for Federal Scientific and Technical Information, National Bureau of Standards, U.S. Department of Commerce, Springfield, Va., 1969, p. 394. 

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