>http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
>
>but that the Handbook will not be updated as a Handbook.
>
>What you get is one food at a time, which you must ask for individually,
>rather than in tabular form. It is quite useful for some purposes;
>however, due to the complete reformatting, it is not possible to compare
>the old versus the new data side by side. If you are a computer
>programmer you can download data directly and write a program to
>maybe reproduce Handbook #8, but I thought that sounded like a pain to
>say the least.
>LM
"to say the least" - and to say a little more, it certainly puts another
stumbling block in the way of people getting the information they want in a
format that is efficient - which is what computers and the Web were supposed
to do for us. Our government is putting on the brakes in many ways - what
will it take for voters to act to protect their children as well as
themselves ?
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