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Additives: What Are they?

Leaflet
1986 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Am educational illustrated booklet entitled 'Additives: What Are They?', composed of 24 pages, bound in a stiff coated glossy paper cover and stapled.

Object details

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Object type
TitleAdditives: What Are they? (published title)
Materials and techniques
Half tone and letterpress, printed in black and blue
Brief description
Print by Elizabeth Anne Hunt, 'Additives: What Are They?', educational illustrated booklet compiled by Jenny Fisher B.Sc., published by Safeway Food Stores, half tone and letterpress printed in black an blue, Great Britain, 1986
Physical description
Am educational illustrated booklet entitled 'Additives: What Are They?', composed of 24 pages, bound in a stiff coated glossy paper cover and stapled.
Dimensions
  • Covers height: 21cm
  • Covers width: 14.8cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994
Object history
This booklet was given out by the supermarket in response to a 1986 Government directive on the new labelling of additives to food, and to reassure customers who were becoming concerned about the mysterious 'E' numbers that were beginning to appear in quantity on food labelling.
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Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1994
Collection
Accession number
E.873-1994

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Record createdApril 3, 2009
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