 According to the Stalin Constitution of 1936 the People's Commissariat of Food Industry is a union-republic commissariat.In January 1939, the People's Commissariat of Food Industry was subdivided by a ukase of the Presidium Supreme Soviet USSR, into the People's Commissariat of Fish Industry, the People's Commissariat of Meat and Dairy Industry, and the People's Commissariat of Food Industry USSR.The People's Commissariat of Food Industry was charged with supervision of the baking and confectionery industry, the sugar, alcohol, and liqueur industries, the fats and perfume and cosmetic industries, end all other enterprises not transferred to the People's Commissariat of Meat and Dairy Industry or to the People's Commissariat of Fish Industry.