The changing meaning of "organic" foods

If you pay attention to natural foods and the organic foods marketplace, you've probably seen an explosion of "all-natural" and "organic" foods outside of the once-small health food store marketplace and into mainstream retailers.

But have organic food manufacturers increased production by a thousand percent or are the loosely-defined terms like "organic" losing their luster. I think it's a little bit of both. However, if you really want organic food, make sure the "USDA Organic" symbol appears on the package. I've seen plenty of fraudulent packages recently that claim an "organic" marketing message bu are full of synthetic ingredients.

So again I'll ask: has the very definition of "organic" changed? Are the organic foods from 10 years ago the same quality as organic foods today? Have organic agricultural practices moved to the point where the supply chain is 10 to 20 times larger than a decade ago? That's hard to believe, but with the ever-increasing "organic" foods marketplace, we have to ask these questions.