21.   A section of the bill dealing with the risk of cancer-causing pesticides in processed foods must be dealt with by the House Commerce Committee.

22.   Alas, all it makes is processed American cheese food.

23.   But the food industry has asked the agency to break the regulatory link between pesticides in processed foods and the same chemicals used on raw crops.

24.   But so does too much processed food.

25.   But when she cooks from the contesting side of her brain, she finds possibilities for processed foods that even the manufacturers could not have dreamed of.

26.   Class-action lawsuits have been filed in New York and Florida contending that processed foods with little nutritional value have misled consumers.

27.   Committee proponents say the bill creates a uniform standard for all foods -- unlike the old bill, which only addressed processed foods.

28.   Committee proponents, however, say the bill creates a uniform standard for all foods, while the Delaney Clause only addresses processed foods.

29.   Citric acid, another corn refining byproduct, is used in soft drinks, processed foods and detergents.

30.   Citric acid, which like lysine is produced in the corn-refining process, is used in soft drinks, processed foods and detergents.