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Articles in Jan 31, 2005 issue of Food & Drink Weekly

• New USDA secretary to initially focus on food safety and trade
• Canada ends one BSE probe
• Tyson Foods
• Archer Daniels Midland Company
• Trade associations anxious about USDA's food pyramid design
• McDonald
• Foodservice distributor Sysco has announced that its FreshPoint produce subsidiary has agreed to acquire Piranha Produce and has also completed the acquisition of Nashville Tomato
• Dean Foods
• The Washington Wine Commission
• San Francisco will mandate a fee of 17 cents per plastic or paper bag used in city grocery stores
• Monsanto has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire fruit and vegetable seed company Seminis for $1.4 billion in cash and assumed debt, plus a performance-based payment of up to $125 million payable by the end of fiscal year 2007
• Japan buys more "new world" wines
• U.S. and Mexico to hold HFCS talks in February
• Kraft Canada, Inc. plans to exit its condiments business in Canada and cease production of products such as Coronation pickles, relish, olives and maraschino cherries in the second quarter of 2005
• Kraft Foods Inc
• Attention to food labels does not correlate to healthier diets in children