The administration also announced it will provide more than $2 billion to try to strengthen the nation’s food supply system.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden is holding a roundtable discussion with baby formula manufacturers Wednesday as the administration tries to ramp up production and imports amid a shortage of the products.and to import formula from abroad, and the executives are expected to provide updates on their efforts to increase the supply of formula in the United States, a White House official said.at Wednesday’s meeting will include top executives from Gerber, Perrigo Co.
United Airlines will ship 3.7 million 8-ounce bottles of Kendamil formula at no cost from London to the U.S. starting June 9, the White House said.Also on June 9, the U.S. will fly in a shipment of Bubs Australia infant formula from Melbourne to Philadelphia, followed by another plane full of formula to California on June 11. The White House said those flights will carry a total of about 4.
These will be the third and fourth shipments of infant formula from overseas since Biden authorized a program last month to use commercial aircraft to speed up the import of the products. The effort has brought in the equivalent of 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of infant formula to the U.S. so far, the White House said.to address the shortage of infant formula, which has gone on for months.
The shortage, which started early in the Covid pandemic, was exacerbated in February when the Food and Drug Administration
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