Records of the Food and Consumer Services
(Record Group 462)
1906-88
Table of Contents
- 462.1 Administrative History
- 462.2 Records of the Food and Nutrition Service 1965-66, 1975-88
- 462.3 Records of the Compliance Division, Food Safety and Quality Service 1906-80
- 462.4 Machine-Readable Records (General)
Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, RG 16.
Records of the Agricultural Marketing Service, RG 136.
Records of the Agricultural Research Service, RG 310.
462.2 Records of the Food and Nutrition Service
1965-66, 1975-88
History: Food and Nutrition Service established in the Department of Agriculture by Secretary's Memorandum 1659, supplement 1, August 8, 1969, to administer food stamp program, commodity distribution program, and child nutrition (school lunch, school breakfast, school food service equipment, and school milk) programs formerly vested in the Consumer and Marketing Service. (For an administrative history of the Consumer and Marketing Service and its predecessors, see RG 136.)
462.2.1 Records of the Food Stamp Division
Machine-Readable Records: Surveys of Characteristics of Households Receiving Food Stamps, 1975-88, with supporting documentation, 1975-78 (18 data sets). See also 462.4.
462.2.2 Records of the Consumer and Food Economics Division
Machine-Readable Records : Surveys of individual and household food consumption in the United States (National Food Consumption Survey), 1965-66, with supporting documentation (1 data set). See also 462.4.
462.3 Records of the Compliance Division, Food Safety and Quality
Service
1906-80
History: Food Safety and Quality Service established in the Department of Agriculture by Secretary's Memorandum 1914, March 14, 1977, to administer meat and poultry inspection functions formerly vested in the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS). (For an administrative history of APHIS and its predecessors, see RG 463.) Redesignated Food Safety and Inspection Service by Secretary's Memorandum 1000-1, June 17, 1981.
Textual Records: Investigation and violation cases, 1963-69 (6 ft.). Records relating to Nichols and Co. v. United States (shell egg grading), 1962 (3 ft.). Records relating to meat inspection, 1906-80. Investigative reports and historical records relating to fresh fruit and vegetable standards, 1916-49 (51 ft.).
Related Records: Records of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, RG 463.
462.4 Machine-Readable Records (General)
See under 462.2.1 and 462.2.2.
Bibliographic note: Web version based on Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States. Compiled by Robert B. Matchette et al. Washington, DC: National Archives and Records Administration, 1995.
3 volumes, 2428 pages.
This Web version is updated from time to time to include records processed since 1995.
