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Have you ever noticed the little stickers on the fruit at the grocery store? In addition to the type of fruit it is and where it comes from, there is a number usually printed on the sticker. The April Food & Wine has, on p.72, an explanation:

“[T]he sticker labels on fruit: The numbers tell you how the fruit was grown. Conventionally grown fruit has four digits; organically grown fruit has five and starts with a nine; genetically engineered has five numbers and starts with an eight.”

I found this on Boing Boing where they got it from Megnut