[blam]

Hoarding will become a bad word in the coming months.

[markomalley]

You can’t say that it was needless.

This provided Biden with two wonderful opportunities:

1) Allows him to punish American families

2) Allows him to grovel before other countries and further his agenda of Make America Garbage Again

[lee martell]

Exactly who’s bright idea was it to shut that critical facility down? I understand there were at least two incidents of infant food poisoning, so precautions of some sort were in order.
But then, a temporary backup plan should have also been devised.

[ExSES]

Hoarding will become a bad word in the coming months.

I'm reminded of a story my Father-in-Law told me about WWII rationing. He was an insurance man and visited a client in 1942... The client invited him to have a cup of coffee at the kitchen table when he noticed that the pantry had dozens upon dozens of 5 pound bags of sugar (a highly rationed staple). He asked the client why he had so much sugar... The client replied that his wife had bought the sugar "Before the Hoarders Could"!

[pepsionice]

If you go back 22 years...this FDA inspection thing is what shut down the one and only anthrax vaccine facility in Michigan. For about two months, the company wanted the Pentagon to just bypass the FDA, and when they realized the Pentagon wouldn’t cooperate....they then told the Pentagon they didn’t have the money to resolve the sanitation issues, and the government would have to pay to resolve the mess (which they did). That took around 1-year for the factory to reopen.

I would suggest there are fair number of shutdowns like this each year, and one reason why non-US sites are favored for production now.

[metmom]

It’s already been weaponized against people who plan ahead.

[AlbertWang]

This has been known for almost a full month.

The government created this crisis.

The press has been silent.

The GOP has been silent.

[mewzilla]

Clearly Abbott thought it was needed.

We just don’t know the real reason why.

[Tupelo]

RE: Abbott Restarts Baby Formula Plant: Crisis-Inducing Shutdown Was Likely Needless

It's called ‘Command & Control’
FDA & the the Rulers testing the waters for another ‘emergency'and it was working pretty well until Uvalde gave them a real one.
Happy Days in Washington

[gspurlock]

So what have babies been eating/drinking for the past month or so when the shelves were literally bare?

[Bikkuri]

Had an article here on FR earlier talking about some areas in Maine being overrun by invaders (Africans) from the southern border. In the story, it was talking about their babies being supplied with baby formula.

WHERE are they getting those, if we citizens can’t get any?

[1Old Pro]

However, a detailed look at the FDA investigation suggests the three-month shutdown was unnecessary, as the FDA investigation failed to produce any evidence linking Abbott’s Sturgis facility or its formula to the illnesses and deaths.

Government agency (FDA) incompetence and political decisions gone bad.