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LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Eighteen months after it began carrying certified humane products, 20-store D'Agostino Supermarkets here has added five cheeses from Thorp, Wis.-based Grass Point Farms, the first national producer of certified humane pasture-based dairy products.

LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Eighteen months after it began carrying certified humane products, 20-store D'Agostino Supermarkets here has added five cheeses from Thorp, Wis.-based Grass Point Farms, the first national producer of certified humane pasture-based dairy products.

LARCHMONT, N.Y. -- Eighteen months after it began carrying certified humane products, 20-store D'Agostino Supermarkets here has added five cheeses from Thorp, Wis.-based Grass Point Farms, the first national producer of certified humane pasture-based dairy products.

JAMAICA, N.Y. -- Mountainside Farms here, an affiliate of Elmhurst Dairy, Inc., New York City's biggest milk supplier, is now offering Mountainside Farms UltraPure milk in Whole, 2% Reduced Fat, 1% Lowfat, and Fat Free varieties at select grocery stores such as Gristede's, Food Emporium, A&P, Foodtown, D'Agostino, and Associated Supermarkets in New York and New Jersey.

SYOSSET, N.Y. -- Distributor Synergy Brands, Inc. here said yesterday that Arlington Heights, Ill.-based Federated Group, a sales and marketing company in the grocery, foodservice, drug, and convenience store business, and Synergy's PHS Group have entered into a sales and marketing agreement to distribute Federated's proprietary Better Valu "savings" private label brand of groceries to PHS Group customers in its geographical distribution areas.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Grace Nome, president of the Connecticut Food Association here, died Monday at Hartford Hospital at the age of 69, according to a published report.

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