Bubs Australia has secured a massive deal to send its baby formula to the US which is in the midst of a dire shortage. babyformula
Australian company Bubs will send more than a million tins of baby formula to the US to help ease a critical shortage. President Joe Biden’s administration is scrambling to deal with the massive baby formula shortage that has left shelves bare and parents struggling to find food for infants and children with special dietary needs.
However, some Australian parents still struggle to access the correct baby formula for their children, particularly for those who have allergies or digestive sensitivities.An Australian baby formula company has sealed a mega deal to send more than a million tins to desperate parents in the United States, with President Joe Biden spruiking the deal on Twitter himself. “I’ve got more good news: 27.5 million bottles of safe infant formula manufactured by Bubs Australia are coming to the United States,” Biden tweeted on Saturday local time. Bubs Australia manufactures its baby formulas, including goat’s milk formula, at a Dandenong factory in Melbourne’s south-east. Founder and chief executive Kristy Carr started the business in 2006 from her kitchen table in Sydney’s northern beaches.The company secured approval from the US Food and Drug Administration on Saturday morning , allowing it to export six of its baby formula products to the US to help fill the country’s dwindling shelves.The dire shortage of baby formula across the US has affected predominately hypoallergenic varieties, with reports of parents driving for hours in a bid to find nourishment for their babies. About 500,000 tins are ready to be sent to the US from Bubs Australia’s Melbourne factory, with another 750,000 being produced for export in the coming months.. Previously, 98 per cent of the baby formula consumed in the US was made within the country.Carr said she was proud of the “substantial deal” secured with the Biden administration, calling it “a turning point for Australia”. “We were actually the first infant formula manufacturer in the world to submit our application to the FDA under this new infant formula enforcement discretion policy,” she said. “This was a very unique opportunity.” Bubs Australia CEO Founder, Kristy Carr, is proud to be able to help the US through their baby formula crisis.Carr said Bubs Australia already distributes formula for toddlers in the US, meaning the company had already been through many of the rigorous regulatory processes required to export products to the US. She said it would otherwise have taken up to three years to gain FDA approval. The US’ baby formula crisis evolved after a major manufacturing facility in Michigan was closed in February following reports of rare Cronobacter sakazakii bacterial infections in four infants, worsening a shortage that began with pandemic supply-chain issues. “This week, we’re seeing reports of up to 70 per cent of brands out of stock [in the US],” Carr said. “This is something that the Biden administration and the FDA are all taking very, very seriously and are pulling out all measures to be able to rectify the situation very quickly.”If babies are not breastfed, their sole source of nutrition for their first four to six months of life comes from the formula they consume. “Not being able to have access to it has caused an incredible wave of alarm amongst families [in the US], as you can imagine,” Carr said. “I think it’s a really important time for an Australian quality food manufacturer that is clean and safe and [has a] reliable supply chain to be able to step up and help relieve some of those shortages.” The US has not been the only country facing extreme shortages, however. In 2018 and 2019, Australian parents struggled to purchase formula
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