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This paper examines China's food safety challenges, US responses to contaminated food imports and the need for China-US cooperation on food safety. China has become the third largest source of food imports into the US. China's capacity to effectively protect food quality is hampered by a weak legal, political, and regulatory infrastructure. The food safety import scandals in 2007 already have begun to catalyze repairs to the US food safety monitoring system. Ideally, the US should follow the model of the EU and the international business community and become directly involved in building the capacity of Chinese food safety regulators and producers.