Trader Joe's Nixes Some Chinese Imports

In a bid to maintain its customers' confidence in the safety of its products, Trader Joe's stores will stop selling all "single-ingredient" foods imported from China by April 1, according to USA Today.

That means no Chinese garlic, but no limit to the Chinese vitamins or other additives that might make up a processed food. (It was melamine, an industrial chemical unscrupulously substituted for wheat gluten in pet foods, that kicked off the China food scare about a year ago.)

The decision follows a spate of food import-related scandals that raised serious concerns about China's ability to produce healthy foods, and about importers' ability to ensure the products they sell are safe. U.S. oversight of the food import supply is also roundly criticized for failing to stop the health scares before they start.

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