Oral history interview with Louis G. Petree [electronic resource], 1974

Biographical Note

Manager, customer research; chemist.

Scope and Contents

Youth and family; education; chemist for Food and Drug Administration and for National Canners Association; use of insecticides on fruit for canning; sterilization and elimination of microorganisms in canned foods; shelf life: West Coast consumer research department; World War II and development of low-tin steel plate for cans; decline in customer services.

Subjects

• Chemists--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Customer services.
• Food contamination.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Petree, Louis G.--Interviews.