Trader Joe’s Says No To Chinese Food!
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US grocery chain Trader Joe’s said Monday it would stop selling food imported from China due to customers’ concerns about the products’ safety.
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“All single ingredient food items sourced from mainland China sre scheduled to be out of our stores by April 1,” she said.
“We will continue to source products from other regions until our customers feel as confident as we do about the quality and safety of Chinese products.”
A series of consumer scares last year involving harmful products from major exporter China, including seafood, cat food, medicines and toys, led to mass product recalls and the tightening of US safety regulations.
Trader Joe’s, which focuses partly on selling organic food, was founded in California in the 1960s.
They have a TJ’s in St. Louis but so far they’ve failed to penetrate the Kansas City, Overland Park, Lee Summit market…maybe one day.
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they told us Overland Park by 2007 or 2008 way back in 2005. Hope you get one soon, it is so much cheaper than Whole Foods.