The shipment of Nestlé formula weighs 78,000 pounds and can fill more than half a million baby bottles.
The first shipment of baby formula under President Joe Biden’s “Operation Fly Formula” initiative landed in the U.S. on Sunday; the airlift totals 78,000 pounds and will provide enough food to fill more than half a million baby bottles. The delivery of Nestlé formula—which was trucked from Switzerland to Germany and then flown to Indianapolis—is the first of multiple flights expected this weekend, which will import three different types of formula from Europe.
All areAll told, enough formula to fill one and a half million eight-ounce bottles is scheduled to arrive in the U.S. this week. According to the director of the White House National Economic Council, Brian Deese, the first shipment brought in 15 percent of the specialty medical grade formula needed. Referencing the closure of a formula manufacturing plant in Michigan that has exacerbated the national crisis, Deese specified that the U.S.
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