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was the title of a talk given by Professor Arnold Bender at the third nutrition conference sponsored by Kellogg's and attended by Women's Institute members at their Denman College. These are some of the changes which Professor Bender thought we might see on the supermarket shelves in the next ten years.

Speaking about the dangers of a high salt intake at a recent press conference, Professor Arnold Bender explained that 100 grams of salt is a fatal amount, yet the average intake in the UK is about 10 grams a day, or even 30 grams for the real salt ‘addict’. In 1977 the US Senate Committee on Nutrition recommended a daily intake of 5 grams of salt but this was rejected because most people find this low level intolerable. We all need salt, and the actual daily requirement although not certain is about 3 to 4 grams.

Clinical signs of malnutrition are very rarely seen in the UK, and they are also uncommon in developing countries. There can be widespread malnutrition, yet only two or three percent of the population may show symptoms of nutrition deficiency. Biochemical estimation of the level of nutrients in the tissues is the only reliable way to determine whether or not an individual has an adequate intake of the nutrients being investigated.

My article under this title twenty years ago dealt with six aspects: adequate supply of nutrients for good health, special diets for treatment of disorders, food enrichment, natural toxins, food additives and dietary imbalance. The same aspects are topical today and three merit special attention.

At the passing of the Fair Trading Act, 1973, and the setting up of a Consumer Protection Service with an Office of Fair Trading under a Director‐General, few could have visualized this comprehensive machinery devised to protect the mainly economic interests of consumers could be used to further the efforts of local enforcement officers and authorities in the field of purity and quality control of food and of food hygiene in particular. This, however, is precisely the effect of a recent initiative under Sect. 34 of the Act, reported elsewhere in the BFJ, taken by the Director‐General in securing from a company operating a large group of restaurants a written undertaking, as prescribed by the Section, that it would improve its standards of hygiene; the company had ten convictions for hygiene contraventions over a period of six years.

The way of thought and vision and memory is that they often come upon you unexpectedly, presenting nothing new but usually with a clarity and emphasis that it all seems new. This will sometimes happen after a long period of indecision or when things are extremely difficult, as they have long been for the country, in most homes and among ordinary individuals. Watching one's life savings dwindle away, the nest‐egg laid down for security in an uncertain world, is a frightening process. This has happened to the nation, once the richest in the world, and ot its elderly people, most of them taught the habit of saving in early youth. We are also taught that what has been is past changing; the clock cannot be put back, and the largesse—much of it going to unprincipled spongers—distributed by a spendthrift Government as token relief is no answer, not even to present difficulties. The response can only come by a change of heart in those whose brutal selfishness have caused it all; and this may be a long time in coming. In the meantime, it is a useful exercise to consider our assets, to recognize those which must be protected at all costs and upon which, when sanity returns, the future depends.

This chapter provides an assessment of how the late Portuguese colonial state (especially in Angola and Mozambique) responded to widespread conflict and anticolonial pressures. Focusing on its structures, idioms, and strategies of social transformation and control-especially as they relate to the domains of development and security-my assessment of state response emphasizes the coming together of: coercive repertoires of rule; planned developmental strategies of political, economic and social change; and processes of engineering sociocultural difference. The late colonial state’s developmental and repressive facets are critically assessed through mobilizing theoretical perspectives and empirical analysis.

The successful manufacturer of consumer goods has a market orientation.

The following classified, annotated list of titles is intended to provide reference librarians with a current checklist of new reference books, and is designed to supplement the RSR review column, “Recent Reference Books,” by Frances Neel Cheney. “Reference Books in Print” includes all additional books received prior to the inclusion deadline established for this issue. Appearance in this column does not preclude a later review in RSR. Publishers are urged to send a copy of all new reference books directly to RSR as soon as published, for immediate listing in “Reference Books in Print.” Reference books with imprints older than two years will not be included (with the exception of current reprints or older books newly acquired for distribution by another publisher). The column shall also occasionally include library science or other library related publications of other than a reference character.