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Chinese Consumers Pinch Pennies on Staples as Pandemic Habits Linger

The average selling prices of toothbrushes, infant formula and makeup are declining as businesses adapt to circumstances. The average selling prices of toothbrushes, infant formula and makeup are declining as businesses adapt to circumstances. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all…

Baby-Formula Makers Face FTC Investigation for Collusion

The agency is investigating whether any formula manufacturers coordinated before bidding for state contracts. The agency is investigating whether any formula manufacturers coordinated before bidding for state contracts. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners, all materials to their authors.…

Ex-FDA Official Says Baby-Formula Industry Remains Vulnerable to Problems

WASHINGTON—The baby-formula industry remains as vulnerable to safety problems and supply disruptions as it did more than a year ago, when a recall led to nationwide shortages, a former Food and Drug Administration official says in testimony submitted for a congressional hearing Tuesday.  “The nation remains one outbreak, tornado, flood, or cyberattack away from finding itself in a similar place to that of February 17, 2022,” Frank Yiannas, the former…

Abbott Baby-Formula Business Is Under Investigation By SEC, FTC

The Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal Trade Commission are investigating Abbott Laboratories ABT 0.62% ’ baby-formula business, the company said. The SEC’s enforcement division sent a subpoena to Abbott in December requesting information about its powder infant-formula business and related public disclosures, the company said Friday in a securities filing. In addition, Abbott said it received a civil…

Abbott Under Criminal Investigation Over Baby Formula

The Justice Department is investigating conduct at the Abbott Laboratories infant-formula plant in Sturgis, Mich., that led to its shutdown last year and worsened a nationwide formula shortage, people familiar with the matter said.Attorneys with the Justice Department’s consumer-protection branch are conducting the criminal investigation, the people said.  The branch, which has criminal as well as civil authority, was involved last year in a settlement with Abbott that allowed its Sturgis…

Baby-Formula Imports to Face Tariffs Again in 2023

Imported baby formula will be subject to tariffs again in the new year, after the expiration of exemptions implemented amid a nationwide shortage. Congress waived tariffs, which can be as high as 17.5%, to help families struggling to find formula after supply-chain problems and the closure of a crucial factory crimped supplies. A White House spokesman said the tariff waivers doubled the number of manufacturers selling baby formula in the U.S. Congress made the tariff waivers temporary as…

Inflation, Supply-Chain Woes Hit Medical-Device Makers

People are clamoring for the knee replacements and hip surgeries they had put off during the pandemic. But medical-device makers that produce those parts are struggling to meet demand.The reason: The inflation and supply chain issues that have challenged industries worldwide are now hitting the device makers. Costlier electronic components have forced Stryker Corp. , maker of surgical equipment and joint-replacement parts, to raise prices and slow purchases and production as it searches for…

Abbott Names New Leadership at Troubled Baby-Formula Plant

Abbott Laboratories has made leadership changes at its major baby-formula manufacturing plant and in its quality organization, following a temporary shutdown of the Sturgis, Mich., plant earlier this year after contamination was found. The Abbott Park, Ill., company also plans to spend about $500 million to build a new baby-formula plant in the U.S., after analyzing the market and concluding more capacity is needed, Chief Executive…

Families Still Struggle to Find Baby Formula Nearly One Year After Shortages Began

Many U.S. households are still struggling to find baby formula, almost a year since supplies thinned on store shelves and eight months after a nationwide recall.Adults in roughly one-third of households with infant children who typically use formula had trouble obtaining it last month, according to a recent survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. Nearly one in five of affected households has less than a week of formula on hand, the survey showed. The survey offers one of the most detailed views yet into the…

Abbott Faces Competition From Heart Valve Device Cleared by FDA

A new heart valve repair device from Edwards Lifesciences Corp. was as effective as the market-leading device from Abbott Laboratories in a clinical study of heart-disease patients, a finding likely to intensify competition in a growing device market.Edwards said Thursday that its new product, known as Pascal Precision, had been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a disease called degenerative mitral regurgitation. It will be…