Category Archives: US baby formula shortage

A year on, many US parents are still reeling from baby formula shortage

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Families in rural towns still faced with empty shelves, purchase limitations and fewer options of infant formula

Marie Abate’s son turned six months old last Wednesday, but the joyous milestone also marked a more anxious one: half a year of worrying about how to feed him.

Abate wasn’t just concerned about trying to establish breastfeeding or setting a feeding schedule. She has a more fundamental concern: will she be able to find enough formula to make sure he doesn’t go hungry?

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Australian company to ship baby formula to shortage-hit US

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Joe Biden welcomes ‘good news’ as Bubs Australia increases production and reassures local customers

An Australian company is planning to ship at least 1.25m cans of its baby formula to the US to help ease a nationwide shortage.

The US Food and Drug Administration said some of it was now in stock for transport and more would be produced by Bubs Australia in the coming weeks and months.

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Military plane rushes baby formula to US health systems

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Stores remain low on supplies but flight brings enough to fill half a million bottles for children with allergies

Store shelves across the US remain short of baby formula after a military plane carrying enough to fill half a million baby bottles arrived in the US on Sunday but its contents were rushed to health system outlets to feed babies with specific allergies.

The first of several such flights from Europe, aimed at relieving a nationwide shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their infants, was packed with specialty hypoallergenic formula to be distributed through channels such as hospitals, doctors’ officers and pharmacies, for babies intolerant of the protein in cow’s milk.

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Senate bill will help food aid recipients find baby formula amid shortage

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Wic voucher requirements are being waived to allow holders to purchase any brand of infant formula as it becomes available

The Senate approved a bill Thursday aimed at easing the baby formula shortage for families participating in a government assistance program that accounts for about half of all formula purchased in the US.

The House passed the bill the day before, so it now goes to Joe Biden to be signed into law.

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Biden invokes Defense Production Act to tackle baby formula shortage

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President also authorizes Pentagon to use commercial aircraft to import supplies amid growing political pressure

Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pressure over a domestic shortage caused by the safety-related closure of the country’s largest formula manufacturing plant.

The Defense Production Act order requires suppliers of formula manufacturers to fulfill orders from those companies before other customers, in an effort to eliminate production bottlenecks. Biden is also authorizing the defense department to use commercial aircraft to fly formula supplies that meet federal standards from overseas to the US, in what the White House is calling “Operation Fly Formula”.

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