With the headline shock of seemingly-daily recalls of China-made products sending consumers into a frenzy, Trader Joe's has taken an unusual step. The California-based purveyor of private-label, mostly all-natural products will stop importing single-ingredient products from China by January first.

The official reason is concerns on the part of consumers about whether China-made products labeled organic conform to the USDA standards for that label.

Trader Joe's is by far my favorite grocery store, and it certainly seems to have a rabid cult following. Part of the reason could be its responsiveness to consumer concerns.

In other organic scandals, Aurora Dairy, the nation's largest producer of organic milk, is being sued by consumers in 27 states after a USDA audit found that the company was labeling milk as organic when its production methods were not in line with the law.