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Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Formula Shortage
AP ^ | May 18, 2022 | By ZEKE MILLER

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: babyformula; bidenadm; bidenclowncar; dpa; formula
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1 posted on 05/18/2022 3:35:48 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Day late dollar short.


2 posted on 05/18/2022 3:37:55 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: Hojczyk

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...


3 posted on 05/18/2022 3:38:03 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: Hojczyk

Lol. Maybe bring in Rosie the Riveter.


4 posted on 05/18/2022 3:38:14 PM PDT by facedown (Armed in the Heartland)
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To: Hojczyk

Ha! Only make things worse! Get out of the way and let business handle it!


5 posted on 05/18/2022 3:38:19 PM PDT by refermech
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To: Hojczyk

Operation Fly Formula? Kidding, right? Fly Formula?


6 posted on 05/18/2022 3:39:12 PM PDT by ecomcon
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To: Hojczyk

I see where Hunter gets his charm.


7 posted on 05/18/2022 3:39:18 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: Hojczyk

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!


8 posted on 05/18/2022 3:40:25 PM PDT by RoseofTexas
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the Food and Drug Administration said it was streamlining its review process

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.

9 posted on 05/18/2022 3:41:27 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: Hojczyk

NOW he’s FINALLY going to do this??? IDIOTS.
Why not 2 months ago?? They are SOOO incompetent


10 posted on 05/18/2022 3:42:25 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: Hojczyk

I guess someone told Uncle Joe that those pregnant men are gonna need some help.


11 posted on 05/18/2022 3:42:29 PM PDT by hsrazorback1 (...and I'm spent.)
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To: RoseofTexas

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


12 posted on 05/18/2022 3:43:05 PM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: Hojczyk

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.


13 posted on 05/18/2022 3:43:39 PM PDT by hardspunned (former GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Hojczyk

A misuse of law. The law was about national defense, not about baby food.


14 posted on 05/18/2022 3:43:46 PM PDT by I want the USA back (A totally corrupt media willingly lies to protect a totally corrupt administration. )
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To: Hojczyk
Hey , Joe !
The action to close the Abbott lab was made last year, by your FDA - Don't act so freaking surprized !!
Sign an Executive Order - is that all you can do ?
This administration is totally incompetent, and figures that it "leads" some seven or eight months after they caused the crisis.
Hey Joe, you're late to the crisis your FDA created (!), and according to authorities,
it will take two months to get them 'up and running'.
Oh yeah, you don't have any infants, so this crisis doesn't affect you !
15 posted on 05/18/2022 3:44:47 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Hojczyk

Oh man. We are really screwed now.


16 posted on 05/18/2022 3:46:00 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Tucker Carlson asked why didn’t he do this several nights ago. So they do watch Tucker.


17 posted on 05/18/2022 3:46:26 PM PDT by BipolarBob (The pharoah had 10 plagues. We have Democrats. He got off lucky.)
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To: Hojczyk

It is very hard to over exaggerate the level of buffoonery in this administration.


18 posted on 05/18/2022 3:48:29 PM PDT by Obadiah ("America is facing a winter of severe illness and death." Biden's own summary of his America.)
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To: Hojczyk

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.


19 posted on 05/18/2022 3:51:38 PM PDT by Stingray51 ( )
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To: ecomcon
Operation Fly Formula

Proof that 0dungbeetle is running things.


20 posted on 05/18/2022 3:53:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (I await the return of The Great MAGA King)
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