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<LEGEND>
This schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the
Agrilink Foods, Inc., Form 10-Q, for the period ended September 23, 2000
and is qualified in it entirety by reference to such financial statements.
</LEGEND>
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<NAME> Agrilink Foods, Inc.
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