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White House announces first government flights to deliver baby formula from Europe to US
The hill ^ | 05/19/2022 | Brett Samuels

Posted on 05/19/2022 4:55:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

The Biden administration on Thursday announced the first flights will take place in the coming days to deliver infant formula from Europe to the United States as part of a new government initiative to address the domestic formula shortage.

The Pentagon is working to get planes in place to fly the equivalent of 1.5 million bottles of formula from Zurich, Switzerland, to Plainfield, Ind., to be distributed to areas of need. The flights are part of “Operation Fly Formula,” an initiative launched this week as one of several steps the White House is taking to increase formula supply.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: baby; europe; formula; switzerland; whitehouse; zurich
This is utterly demented.
1 posted on 05/19/2022 4:55:41 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Why not go commercial? Crazy!


2 posted on 05/19/2022 4:56:44 PM PDT by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

America is the beneficiary of a reverse Berlin air drop.


3 posted on 05/19/2022 4:57:09 PM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Woke have turned the Military into ninny nanas.


4 posted on 05/19/2022 5:02:13 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Don’t send the planes empty! They need gardeners over there and busboys? Right? We have 240,000 extra just from last month alone.


5 posted on 05/19/2022 5:02:36 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: Fido969

Bingo.


6 posted on 05/19/2022 5:05:17 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Miss you Rush!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
“Operation Fly Formula,”

There has to be an opening in the marketing department for the idjit that thought the one up.

7 posted on 05/19/2022 5:05:21 PM PDT by Michael.SF. (Never do anything illegal, when you are doing something illegal. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Switzerland? They’re slipping.

I figured they’d find the formula in Ukraine. Our congresscritters would want their cut, plus that 10 percent for The Big Guy.


8 posted on 05/19/2022 5:06:52 PM PDT by bobcat62
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Land the C-5, open it up and video the ghettopotamus fighting over the formula.


9 posted on 05/19/2022 5:08:20 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Funny how the normally stricter Certified Europe (CE) label is now less stringent than the newly revised FDA requirement which Brandon/Zero just ratcheted up.


10 posted on 05/19/2022 5:08:47 PM PDT by JJBookman (Dead people for Brandon but NOT for babies. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Can’t wait for the photo ops.


11 posted on 05/19/2022 5:13:52 PM PDT by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: Fido969

MULTIPLE reports here on FR clearly state that European standards are NOT the same as USA standards...OURS are higher.

SO ANOTHER SMOKE & MIRRORS show from Biden, et al???


12 posted on 05/19/2022 5:13:59 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’ll wind up in people’s store rooms between the five year supply of toilet paper and hand sanitizer.


13 posted on 05/19/2022 5:13:59 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Send it by the truckloads to the border for illegal aliens, then fly it in from Europe for Americans to buy.

Way to go, Brandon.

14 posted on 05/19/2022 5:32:49 PM PDT by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Democrats have made huge strides into making sure we look more and more like a Third World natuon


15 posted on 05/19/2022 6:31:13 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (GoFundMe is a Democrat Scam)
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To: griswold3

With 10% surcharge going to Brandon.


16 posted on 05/19/2022 6:37:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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To: VeniVidiVici

*** The Democrats have made huge strides into making sure we look more and more like a Third World nation ***

The US is the only country where I’ve seen formula shortages. The Chinese, Russians, Mexican, Supermarkets have tons on their shelves.

The Chinese seem to really be enjoying our circling the drain. Sadly, when I read their daily barbs about the US, I can’t say they are wrong.

And with their expansion of BRICS to counter the diminishing West, they will have more to gloat about.


17 posted on 05/19/2022 9:03:10 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

EUROPE??

Why Europe?

I hear they got tons in El Paso.


18 posted on 05/20/2022 12:19:33 AM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Give it another month and we’ll be flooded with baby formula, out of meat.


19 posted on 05/20/2022 2:45:23 AM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: ridesthemiles
Biden Announces First Ever International Food Relief Shipments from Switzerland to Help Feed Hungry Americans

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2022/05/19/biden-announces-first-ever-international-food-relief-shipments-from-switzerland-to-help-feed-hungry-americans/

[…] These formulas have been prioritized because they serve a critical medical purpose and are in short supply in the United States because of the Abbott Sturgis plant closure. These shipments will include approximately 246 pallets.

[…] Under Operation Fly Formula, USDA and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) are authorized to use DOD-contracted commercial aircraft to pick up overseas infant formula that meets U.S. health and safety standards.

White House:

The Operation Fly Formula shipments will transport the equivalent of up to 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of three formulas—Alfamino® Infant, Alfamino® Junior, and Gerber Good Start® Extensive HA—all of which are hypoallergenic formulas for children with cow’s milk protein allergy.

20 posted on 05/20/2022 5:36:07 AM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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