BREAKING: Biden invokes Defense Production Act to address baby formula shortage
Empty shelves in the baby formula aisle of a store in Albany, California, on Tuesday, May 17, 2022. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Imagesthat has caused panic for the millions of parents and caregivers in the U.S. who rely on formula to feed their children.Invoking the DPA will require "suppliers to direct needed resources to infant formula manufacturers before any other customer who may have ordered that good," the White House said in a fact sheet.
Biden also directed several government agencies to use Department of Defense commercial planes to pick up formula overseas that meets U.S. standards and bring it back to the U.S. to help restock shelves in what the administration is calling "Operation Fly Formula." "Imports of baby formula will serve as a bridge to this ramped up production, therefore, I am requesting you take all appropriate measures available to get additional safe formula into the country immediately," Biden wrote in a letter to HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack.
In February, Abbott Nutrition recalled several major brands of its formula and closed its facility in Sturgis, Michigan due to concerns about bacterial contamination. on Monday to reopen the plant in two weeks, but it will take another six to eight weeks for the baby formula to reach store shelves.
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