Formula

Empty shelves show a shortage of baby formula at a Target store in San Antonio, Texas, May 10, 2022.Kaylee Greenlee Beal | ReutersFedEx Express has secured a government contract to bring another shipment of infant formula to the U.S. on Wednesday, NBC News reported.The Express plane will fly from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. It's unclear how much formula the plane will carry.The move is meant to address a critical shortage of baby formula in the United States after top…

The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022.Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty ImagesAbbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford apologized Saturday in a new op-ed for his company's role in a nationwide shortage of baby formula, which this week moved Congress and the Biden administration to take emergency actions to alleviate it.Ford also detailed steps the company is taking to stem the shortage, and vowed, "We are making significant investments to ensure this never happens again."Ford's apology in a…

Robert Califf testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the nomination to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021.Bill Clark | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty ImagesU.S. lawmakers on Thursday grilled Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf about a nationwide baby formula shortage that's left parents across America scrambling to feed their children, calling the agency's response a "dereliction of duty." "The shortage was…

Even ramping up production of infant formula may not immediately help, because there are fewer companies making the right packaging to store products, fewer available warehouses to store products, and fewer trucks to ship it. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The critical shortage of baby formula across the United States is being exacerbated by many of the same issues implicated in the global supply chain crisis borne by the…

Social media posts are urging parents who face baby formula shortages to make it themselves. But pediatricians told AFP they do not advise patients to use homemade formula, warning it may lack vitamins and nutrients key to helping infants grow and thrive.  One formula recipe, said to be from 1960, has been shared on Facebook hundreds of thousands of times, urging parents to mix evaporated milk, water and Karo corn syrup.Parents in the United States say purchasing restrictions and price gouging have left them increasingly…

The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022.Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty ImagesPresident Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to increase baby formula manufacturing to ease a nationwide shortage caused by the closure of a key plant in Michigan. Biden is requiring suppliers of ingredients used in baby formula to direct those goods to key manufacturers before any other customers. The president has also directed the Health and Human Services Department and Department of…

The Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday opened an investigation into Abbott Labs, the company at the center of a baby formula shortage in the U.S.Committee Chairman Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., sent a letter to CEO Robert Ford requesting information on Abbott's international tax practices and $8 billion in stock buybacks the company has authorized since 2019.Wyden also requested information on how much money Abbott spent to upgrade an infant formula plant in Sturgis, Mich. prior to its closure due to bacterial contamination…

Article content TORONTO — Many Canadian retailers have imposed limits on the amount of baby formula customers can buy amid a shortage following Abbott Laboratories’ February production suspension in the United States, an industry spokesperson said on Wednesday. Article content Canada has not been as hard hit by the shortage caused by the suspension at the Abbott facility, Retail Council of Canada spokesperson Michelle Wasylyshen told Reuters. The United States has been grappling with a widespread infant formula…

Sod Tatong | Moment | Getty ImagesScammers are exploiting a nationwide baby formula shortage, tricking consumers into paying hefty prices through fraudulent online stores, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday.The con artists lure "desperate parents and caregivers" via fake websites or social media profiles with images and logos of recognizable formula brands, according to a consumer alert. Consumers think they're purchasing from a company's official website but formula never arrives, the FTC said."Scammers…

WASHINGTON—Democrats, responding to public anger over the baby-formula shortage, laid out plans for legislation and oversight hearings aimed at boosting supply and preventing a repeat of the problems that left store shelves empty in many locations.The House plans to vote Wednesday on the Access to Baby Formula Act, a bill that would give emergency authority to the WIC federal nutrition program to relax some non-safety-related regulations. Democrats also unveiled a bill to provide $28 million to the Food and Drug…