Parents across America are still scrambling to find baby formula, as a national product recall after empty store shelves, high prices and retailers limited sales of the rare products.
“You have this sick feeling in the pit of your stomach because we had a can that was recalled and it was empty, we just finished it,” said Amy Dolan, a mother of three in New Jersey. “And, you know, I’m sitting there thinking, Oh my god, what have I given to my baby?”
AbbottThe country’s largest infant formula maker earlier this year recalled several products and halted production michigan manufacturing plant For several months after bacteria are found at the site. Four newborns who consumed the formula made in the facility fell ill with the infection. Two of these infants died.
Shaji Visram, founder and CEO of HealthyBaby, said, “It’s like a perfect storm of a lot of terrible things and No. 1 should never have happened in the first place and we could have completely stopped it.”
more than 40% of infant formula In the US the stock ran out in early May and the problem remains, according to Datasembly, a retail tracking group.
And it wasn’t just a factory shutdown that caused the crisis. America’s strict formula import regulations and nutrition programs for low-income families may have contributed to the disaster.
But some signs of progress suggest the crisis may be looming. The Food and Drug Administration has since relaxed rules on imports from abroad and President Joe Biden called upon defense production act To enhance baby formula formulation.
So what caused the infant formula crisis in America in the first place and how can the nation prevent another disaster? Watch the video to learn more.
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