81.  No longer the cuisine only of sandal-clad environmentalists, organic food is coming of age.

82.  On Monday, the Department of Agriculture announced a proposed set of federal standards for organic food production and processing.

83.  Now, Beavis said, the challenge of keeping them separate from organic foods is baffling.

84.  One of the big questions under consideration by the Agriculture Department was whether certain disputed techniques could be used in the production and processing of organic food.

85.  Only about half of the states now regulate organic food, and any producer can slap a label on a product and call it organic.

86.  On one hand, we demand organic food and question whether pesticide use, irradiation, genetic alteration have gone too far.

87.  Organic food advocates assailed proposed federal standards for their industry because they might allow bioengineered and irradiated foods to be labeled as organic.

88.  Organic food sales makes up a growing segment of the retail food business.

89.  Organic food becomes easier to find each year, but it still is only a very small percentage of the fruits and vegetables sold in this country.

90.  Organic food is coming of age.