Posted on 05/18/2022 3:35:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act to speed production of infant formula and authorized flights to import supply from overseas, as he faces mounting political pressure over a domestic shortage caused by the safety-related closure of the country's largest formula manufacturing plan.
The Defense Production Act order requires suppliers of formula manufacturers to fulfill those orders before other customers. Biden is also authorizing the Defense Department to use commercial aircraft to fly overseas formula supplies that meet federal standards to the U.S., in what the White House is calling “Operation Fly Formula.”
Supplies of baby formula across the country have been severely curtailed in recent weeks after a February recall by Abbott Nutrition exacerbated ongoing supply chain disruptions among formula makers, leaving fewer options on store shelves and increasingly anxious parents struggling to find nutrition for their children.
The announcement comes two days after the Food and Drug Administration said it was streamlining its review process to make it easier for foreign manufacturers to begin shipping more formula into the U.S. Regulators also said Monday that they’d reached a deal to allow Abbott Nutrition to restart its Sturgis, Michigan, plant, the nation's largest formula plant, which has been closed since February due to contamination issues. The company must overhaul its safety protocols and procedures before resuming production.
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Day late dollar short.
Sure, and the shipping of many pallets of formula to the
border to take care of the children of foreign nationals
had nothing to do with it.
So, it would have been inhumane to deny the children of
foreign nationals formula, but there’s no problem denying
it to our own domestic children.
Ah, the mind of a Leftist...
Lol. Maybe bring in Rosie the Riveter.
Ha! Only make things worse! Get out of the way and let business handle it!
Operation Fly Formula? Kidding, right? Fly Formula?
I see where Hunter gets his charm.
Wow! Squeeze the mothers to a bending position and wala all of a sudden comes Superman to the rescue! More like vegetable man to the rescue! This was a game to the bastards at the hill all along they are desperate for Brownie points with the mommies come November!
Like COVID "vaccines"? Only problem is baby formula needs to work - you know do what food does - provide nutrition - unlike so-called "vaccines" that no longer need to prevent the spread of disease.
NOW he’s FINALLY going to do this??? IDIOTS.
Why not 2 months ago?? They are SOOO incompetent
I guess someone told Uncle Joe that those pregnant men are gonna need some help.
Kind of hard to produce formula when FDA drags their feet to reopen the Michigan plant. Biden and his FDA have to be the largest collection of the STUPIDEST sumbitches on the face of the Earth
I seriously doubt the regime will be as successful as Trump was when he did this. If Polio ever makes a comeback we’re prepared. Thousands of ventilators that were never used during the scamdemic.
A misuse of law. The law was about national defense, not about baby food.
Oh man. We are really screwed now.
Tucker Carlson asked why didn’t he do this several nights ago. So they do watch Tucker.
It is very hard to over exaggerate the level of buffoonery in this administration.
Commercial baby formula existed but was not widespread until the 1950: or 1960s. It is ludicrously simple to make your own and the experts saying it is unsafe to do so (for normal, healthy children) are absolutely full of it. Yes, Biden has wreaked destruction on the economy but fellow Americans, please stop embarrassing yourselves with your helplessness.
Proof that 0dungbeetle is running things.
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