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Articles in Dec 10, 2001 issue of Food & Drink Weekly

• EU completes wine and spirit trade deal with Croatia and Macedonia
• EC Fines Beverage Companies for Price Fixing
• Suiza Foods Corporation and Dean Foods Company announced that they plan to divest five additional plants which the companies expect will resolve regulatory issues relating to their pending merger
• EU Moves to Limit Dioxins in Food Supply
• Grapevine: News About People
• Country-of-origin labeling for food could end up in next Farm Bill
• Murano Calls for HACCP Performance Standards
• Smithfield Foods, Inc. and American Foods Group, Inc. announced today that the two parties have agreed to terminate any further discussions regarding the agreement for Smithfield Foods to acquire American Foods Group
• Harvard BSE Study Praised by U.S. Livestock, Meat Industry
• Coca-Cola Enterprises Inc., the largest bottler of Coca-Cola Co. drinks, announced a new financial agreement with Coke, which its chief executive said effectively eliminates the bottler's funding hurdles for the next two years
• Mexican Government to Keep HFCS Duties and Begins Producing Liquid Sugar to Compete in Soft Drink Production
• Sysco Corporation, a foodservice marketer and distributor, has signed a definitive agreement to purchase for $278 million substantially all of the assets of the Serca Foodservice operations of Sobeys Inc
• Groupe Danone announced that it has entered into an agreement to sell its 60 percent interest in its breweries based in Wuhan, China, to CRE Beverage Limited
• Diageo plc will start the sale of Malibu, its biggest rum brand, in about two weeks through a formal auction process, according to bankers and analysts