Posted on 06/10/2022 3:49:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The FDA has been seriously inconsistent in its actions regarding baby formula suppliers.
Alexa Beichler, a mother of three boys under five in Leesburg, VA, is among the many “faces” of the national infant formula shortage.
Two of her boys have classic phenylketonuria (PKU), in which they cannot process an amino acid found in protein. This means they require – for life -- the very formula Abbott Labs was making in Sturgis, MI, the plant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) shut down leading to the current crisis.
According to Beichler, the Biden administration’s "Operation Fly Formula" did not have the right kind of formula for her sons' needs.
Fox reported: “Beichler spoke to Virginia Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-10th District) about the problem but wasn’t given a solution.”
"If she can’t get any answers, and I can’t get any answers, then who has the answers?"
Well, the answers to how this started are within the FDA and its inconsistency in infant formula inspections.
This whole ordeal began last fall when FDA audited Abbott Labs’ Sturgis plant and issued a 483 -- essentially, a list of violations that require “official action.”
Then, an unnamed whistleblower -- believed to be a former employee -- talked to the agency, around the same time four infants became ill with Cronobacter sakazakii, and two died.
So, the agency collected samples from the babies and had it tested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. FDA also collected milk samples from Sturgis. Although the strains in the infants were different, and not found in the milk, according to Abbott, the agency swooped into Sturgis in early January with 12 auditors, quite a large number.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Government does not have power unless they are using it.
Murderers. Never forget.
At least it has not burned down....yet. /s
July 4th is coming!
Overzealous auditors looking to move up in government yep a company to shut down or else. Company shirts down production.
The DEMOCRATS only want to CONTROL us!! Controlling FOOD, GAS, MEDICINE, HEALTH CARE is what they are all about....TOTAL EVIL!!
I appreciated the only comment at that site under that article:
HAL 8999
1 hour ago
This is a bureaucratic fiasco so intense it makes me wonder if there’s any connection between it and the 19-odd food processing plant disasters that have occurred over the last year.
We’re long past government failing to protect us, and instead well into government actively tearing us asunder. We’re getting rectally Bidenized everywhere we turn.
"Regulatory Tunnel Vision"
thy didn’t donate enough to democrats.
With impunity.
Love that visualization.
Rush nicknamed him "Plugs" Biden and he is Hunter's Dad.
Miles D White, donated to Republicans. MMMMM?
The articles about Abbott Lab said the bacteria was found in Sturgis, and the babies died of the same kind of bacteria. But, the DNA of the bacteria wasn’t the same as from Sturgis. There was another source of the bacteria. Go figure. The FDA is a bunch of screw ups on this one.
Or we are submitting to or complying to it.
Caving to something like mask mandates gives them power over us, too.
There were other issues with the Strugis plant as well that were part of the problem and have been dealt with.
These bureaucracies play like robber baron - gate keepers. And whistleblowers don’t always have the best information, but democrats, being the natural born subversives they are, think if it’s from a whistleblower, it must be true.
We’re long past government failing to protect us, and instead well into government actively tearing us asunder. We’re getting rectally Bidenized everywhere we turn.
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True. Painfully true.
Rd later.
Government incompetence followed by a crisis that’s was too good to waste.
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