An Australian company plans to ship at least 1.25 million cans of its baby formula to the United States to help ease a critical shortage. 7NEWS
The US shortage is partly due to Abbott Laboratories’ manufacturing plant in Michigan recalling some products including Similac in February.
Abbott said on Tuesday it plans to restart production at the facility on June 4, adding it would prioritise making EleCare and supplying it on or about June 20.Empty shelves at a grocery store during a baby formula shortage in the Brooklyn, New York.“This is an important step, but it is by no means the only step that must take place,” US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said this week.
“We will continue to work as the president has instructed us to look for every opportunity to increase supply.President Joe Biden’s administration is seeking to stock empty shelves with 1.5 million containers of Nestle speciality infant formulas.Nestle also said more shipments would arrive in the coming days.
Pallets of baby formula are unloaded from a FedEx cargo plane upon arrival at Dulles International Airport on May 25.Troops used forklifts to unload boxes of the cargo from the plane, which the White House said carried 35,000 kg of speciality infant formula - enough for 500,000 bottles - and onto trucks heading to distribution centres.
Abbott, the biggest US supplier of powder infant formula, closed its Michigan plant following reports of bacterial infections in four infants, worsening a shortage among multiple manufacturers that began with pandemic supply-chain issues.“This emergency executive order will help us to crack down on any retailer looking to capitalise on this crisis by jacking up prices on this essential good,” he said in a statement.
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