President Joe Biden is stepping up his administration’s response to a nationwide baby formula shortage that has forced frenzied parents into online groups to swap and sell to each other to keep their babies fed.
Families in our area are doing whatever it takes to get their hands on what little supply of baby formula there is right now.President Joe Biden stepped up his administration's response to a nationwide baby formula shortage Thursday that has forced frenzied parents into online groups to swap and sell to each other to keep their babies fed.
About half of infant formula nationwide is purchased by participants using WIC benefits, according to the White House. "I connected with a gal in my group and she had seven cans of the formula I need that were just sitting in her house that her baby didn’t need anymore," she said. "So I drove out, it was about a 20-minute drive and picked it up and paid her. It was a miracle."
Kimberly Anderson, 34, of Hartford County, Maryland, said her 7 1/2-month-old son takes a prescription formula that has been nearly impossible to find locally. She turned to social media and said people in Utah and Boston found the formula, which she paid to have shipped. One banner ad across Amazon offers "organic non GMO formula for babies & toddlers," but a closer inspection of the product’s image shows that it is only intended for children over 12 months. Other ads for toddler milk appear on Amazon’s website on pages for out-of-stock infant formula.
The Food and Drug Administration warned consumers on Feb. 17 to avoid some powdered baby formula products from a Sturgis, Michigan, facility run by Abbott Nutrition, which then initiated a voluntary recall. According to findings released in March by federal safety inspectors, Abbott failed to maintain sanitary conditions and procedures at the plant.
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