I just called the library and ordered the 1963 version of Composition of
Foods: Raw, Processed, Prepared on interlibarary loan. The USDA may not
release the old data now but they can't recall all the old book already out
there :>)
I will compare the data in the 1963 version with my 1989 Supplement and the
1999 online version. I will get back to the list with a table of several
selected foods. Mike Miller
2001 - USDA's Nuclear Food Odyssey Hello, Dave. Is your food irradiated
enough?
>Agricultural Handbook #8 is a wonderful reference which unfortunately
>has not been updated and published in book form. About a year or so ago
>I spent a great deal of time proving this to myself because I couldn't
>beleive it was true. I finally got a confirmation from somebody at USDA
>that the updated data are available via a web site
>
>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
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