Tag: formula
Another baby formula shipment from Europe to arrive in the U.S. on Wednesday
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 se [...]
Abbott CEO apologizes for baby formula shortage in Washington Post
The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022.Jeff Kowalsky | AFP | Getty ImagesAbbott Laboratories CEO Robert Ford apologiz [...]
‘A dereliction of duty:’ U.S. lawmakers grill FDA commissioner over baby formula shortage
Robert Califf testifies during the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing on the nomination to be commissioner of the Food and [...]
Baby Formula Shortage Has an Aggravating Factor: Few Producers
To help alleviate the shortage, the Agriculture Department has granted states waivers that would give WIC recipients more flexibility to choose altern [...]
White House Struggles to Explain Baby Formula Production Plan
WASHINGTON — Administration officials struggled on Thursday to explain how President Biden’s decision to invoke a Cold War-era statute will help allev [...]
Biden invokes Defense Production Act to boost baby formula manufacturing to ease shortage
President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to increase baby formula manufacturing to ease a nationwide shortage caused by the [...]
Biden Invokes Defense Powers in a Bid to Ease Formula Shortage
Several members of Congress, particularly Democrats facing difficult re-election races, have clamored in recent days for Mr. Biden to invoke the law t [...]
Senate panel investigates Abbott tax practices after contamination shut down baby formula plant
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.Co [...]
House Democrats Release $28 Million Aid Bill to Address Formula Shortage
WASHINGTON — House Democrats on Tuesday proposed an emergency funding bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration $28 million to address a n [...]
Abbott reaches agreement with FDA to reopen baby formula plant to ease nationwide shortage
A woman shops for baby formula at Target in Annapolis, Maryland, on May 16, 2022, as a nationwide shortage of baby formula continues due to supply cha [...]
Republicans Wrongly Tie Biden Immigration Policies to Baby Formula Shortage
Under the settlement, the government also agreed to quickly release children from detention. To get around Flores and detain adults who were traveling [...]
House Plans Vote to Ease Baby Formula Shortage as Biden Pledges Quick Action
WASHINGTON — Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that the House would take action next week to address the baby formula shortage that has left parents [...]
U.S. to boost baby formula imports to ease shortage after Abbott Nutrition recall
Baby formula is offered for sale at a big box store on January 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois.Scott Olson | Getty ImagesThe U.S. will increase baby for [...]
Under Pressure to Act, White House Says It’ll Address Formula Shortage
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration said on Thursday that it was working to address a worsening nationwide shortage of infant formula, announcing ef [...]
Why the US has a baby formula shortage — and who is most at risk
Baby formula has been running low all over the United States, threatening the health of infants and other people who depend on it for their sustena [...]