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Excerpt from Estimated Number of Days' Supply of Food and Beverages in Establishments That Serve Food for on-Premise Consumption: A Civil Defense Study More than four-fifths of the food on inventory in these establishments is in a form that is storable for comparatively long periods without special handling (tables 3 and This food consists of canned and bottled items, and dried and packaged products such as cereals, flour, and sugar. More than 10 percent of the supply is in fresh form, and about 8 percent in frozen form. Slightly more than 20 percent of the supply is in fats and oils, including butter; about 20 percent is in sugar and sweets (tables 5 and Fruits and vegetables make up 13 percent of the total. Soft drinks, beer and ale, and wine (grouped under other beverages in the tables) account for 14 percent. Each of the remaining food groups-dairy, meat and meat substitutes, grain products, and miscellaneous items-accounts for about 10 percent or less. The distribution of the food on inventory by storage type and by major food group is reasonably uniform among civil defense regions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.