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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from Agrilink
Foods, Inc. Form 10-Q for the period ended September 25, 1999 and is qualified
in its entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> Agrilink Foods, Inc.
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0
0
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