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SAN DIEGO - SureBeam Corporation on Tuesday said its processed fresh ground beef will be sold at Pathmark Supermarkets. Pathmark joins supermarkets such as Wegmans and Lowes Foods, who introduced irradiated beef products this year.

WASHINGTON - Officials from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration were scheduled to meet with consumer groups and food manufacturers on Monday to discuss the risk of acrylamide, a possible carcinogen found in many fried or baked starchy foods.

HAVANA, Cuba - Cuban officials on Sunday said the country had struck deals to buy more than $66 million in American food at a historical agribusiness show, The Associated Press reports.

MATTHEWS, N.C. - Harris Teeter Inc. is going after the growing eat-at-home market with a new fresh-foods program led by a professional chef at select stores, the Charlotte Business Journal reports.

ISSAQUAH, Wash. - Warehouse-club chain Costco, based in Issaquah, Wash., has announced plans to build a 106,000-square-foot Costco Fresh store at a former Kmart in Bellevue, Wash., the Seattle Times reports.

SAN DIEGO - San Diego-based SureBeam Corporation announced on Tuesday that D'Agostino Supermarkets has become the first New York metropolitan area retailer to offer SureBeam processed fresh ground beef in its stores.

RICHMOND, Va. - Performance Food Group on Monday announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recognized its Fresh Express subsidiary and its national director of raw product quality & food safety, Frances Pabrua, with its CFSAN Team Award.

SOUTHAMPTON, Bermuda - Food Distributors International president and CEO John R. Block assured the association's last-ever Midyear Executive Conference on Saturday that wholesalers will continue to have a strong voice after FDI is absorbed by the Food Marketing Institute in January.