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Parents struggle to find baby formula amid widespread shortages and rationing
CBS News ^ | April 8,2022 | MEGAN CERULLO

Posted on 04/08/2022 6:10:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk

One of the most important products for new parents is in short supply. Baby formula, which three-quarters of babies in the U.S. receive within their first six months, is increasingly out of stock at retailers across the country.

The supply of formula is so constrained that retailers like Walgreens are even limiting how much consumers can purchase at one time. A spokesperson for the drugstore chain told CBS MoneyWatch it is limiting customers to three infant and toddler formula products per transaction, citing "increased demand and various supplier issues."

Supply-chain snarls related to COVID-19 are contributing to the shortage of formula around the U.S. They include manufacturers having more difficulty procuring key ingredients, packaging hangups and labor shortages, with those factors combining to affect production and distribution. In addition, a major baby formula recall in January exacerbated shortages.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: babies; baby; babyformula; food; formula; supply; supplychain
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1 posted on 04/08/2022 6:10:44 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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“Parents struggle to find baby formula amid widespread shortages and rationing”

Probably short critical ingredients, due to ‘Sticking it to Putin”


2 posted on 04/08/2022 6:12:34 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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This has to be Putins fault????!!!!!


3 posted on 04/08/2022 6:12:40 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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Maybe Hunter snorted it all by accident.


4 posted on 04/08/2022 6:13:55 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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Anyone else remember the old standby of evaporated milk, Karo, and water for baby formula. I’m going to assume there is reason why these moms have chosen not to breast-feed. But it seems a rather obvious solution to a formula shortage.


5 posted on 04/08/2022 6:15:36 PM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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6 posted on 04/08/2022 6:15:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin ((The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.))
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7 posted on 04/08/2022 6:16:53 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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Women’s boobs are supposed to function as feeding station for her kids, but women today....


8 posted on 04/08/2022 6:19:23 PM PDT by JJBookman (...need I say more? )
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They are indeed suppose to. But they don't always.

That is why there were wet nurses prior to formula.

9 posted on 04/08/2022 6:22:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It is better to light a single flame thrower then curse the darkness. A bunch of them is better yet)
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That was me when I breast fed. Lol
I did not use that other crap
Cheaper cleaner, eat what you eat, have to be careful


10 posted on 04/08/2022 6:22:58 PM PDT by just me (Trade your liberty for temporary safety. I will keep mine. My family doesn't fly a white flag.)
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Udder nonsense.


11 posted on 04/08/2022 6:25:41 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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12 posted on 04/08/2022 6:31:50 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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Some moms can't breast feed. Mom???
13 posted on 04/08/2022 6:36:44 PM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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Sorry everyone.


14 posted on 04/08/2022 6:37:26 PM PDT by Do_Tar
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Silicone doesn’t provide many vitamins.


15 posted on 04/08/2022 6:37:51 PM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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Must be transgenders because I thought “Women” came equipped with the means to feed their babies


16 posted on 04/08/2022 6:38:40 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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We shop at a little market in the boondocks of Eastern Montana each Tuesday. This past Tuesday, there was lots of baby food and formula. I don’t buy the shortage crap.


17 posted on 04/08/2022 6:40:14 PM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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I walked into a courthouse in FL years ago and saw a woman breastfeeding. Blew me away for a second because it was the first time I’d ever seen it but then I just thought, cool. No plastic bottles, formula etc. Still to this day, I don’t think they know exactly everything that is in breast milk. My wife quit doing it within days because our first born, son, was too rough. I told her to flick him in the head with her finger when that happened but she couldn’t bring herself to do that.


18 posted on 04/08/2022 6:43:55 PM PDT by Pollard (PureBlood -- https://youtube.com/watch?v=VXm0fkDituE)
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To: JJBookman

Most women breastfeed today….all of my grandchildren were.

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19 posted on 04/08/2022 6:45:05 PM PDT by Mears ( )
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You would have to supplement that with vitamins or your baby would die of malnutrition.


20 posted on 04/08/2022 6:46:28 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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