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In late April 2022, we reported about the supply chain crisis hitting the baby formula market, coupled with a voluntary recall by Abbott Nutrition, “after reports of infants becoming ill from bacterial infections.” As my colleague Kira Davis wrote, some of the infants died:Fox News reports that baby formula inventory was down a whopping 31 percent at the beginning of April. The scarcity is a combination of supply chain issues and recalls. In February, major formula producer Abbott Nutrition voluntarily recalled their Similac, Alimentum, and EleCare brands after reports of infants becoming ill from bacterial infections after drinking the formula....

Nearly one year has passed since the baby formula shortage began impacting America’s kids and parents — and the issue may not end this year. A new report by Reckitt Benckiser, the maker of Enfamil, indicates shortages are expected to persist until at least the spring of 2023. Amber Bergeron, a Louisiana mother of four, confirmed to “Fox & Friends First” on Thursday that feeding her eight-month-old twins has been continuously difficult for her. “I’m beyond struggling,” she said. Bergeron shared how she was down to only half a can of her formula of choice last week and wasn’t able...

Abbott is recalling Similac baby formula products due to faulty bottle caps that may cause spoilage. The products hail from a manufacturing plant in Columbus, Ohio that distributes nationally.The announcement comes after Abbott's February formula recall that prompted a national crisis. Abbott is again recalling Similac baby formula products — this time due to faulty bottle caps. The company issued a voluntary recall on Friday for several Similac ready-to-feed liquid products produced at its Columbus, Ohio facility. It discovered caps on 2 fluid-ounce bottles "that may not have sealed completely, which could result in product spoilage," Abbott said in a...

Truckloads of Baby Formula Being Intentionally Destroyed Intentionally Destroyed: https://halturnerradioshow.com/in.... (https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/en/news-page/news-nation/video-truckloads-of-baby-formula-being-intentionally-destroyed) Mothers Call on State to Change Practice of Destroying Unused Infant Formula: https://www.wral.com/mothers-call... (https://www.wral.com/mothers-call-on-state-to-change-practice-of-destroying-unused-infant-formula/20324915/) State Clinics Destroyed Thousands of Cans of Usable Baby Formula: https://reason.com/2022/06/... (https://reason.com/2022/06/08/following-usda-guidance-state-clinics-destroyed-thousands-of-cans-of-usable-baby-formula/) https://t.me/TheConspiracyHole/33537

President Joe Biden's administration announced its 17th Operation Fly Formula mission on Monday as marketing data shows the baby formula shortage is getting worse. The administration announced two flights to transport Nestlé Health Science amino acid-based formula from Switzerland to John F. Kennedy Airport in New York on July 21 and 22. The delivery will include the equivalent of 802,446 8-ounce bottles of formula, which will be distributed primarily to hospitals and home health care providers. But, despite the rash of flights the administration has announced, U.S. stores are still struggling to stock baby formula on their shelves. Formula availability...

Did you ever think you’d live to see American parents relying on Mexico for their baby’s survival? ...... Snip...... This week, after several months of baby formula shortages the Biden regime announced they will start importing formula from Mexico. It only took them six months to devise this simple plan. They are really that pathetic. HotAir reported: Today the Biden administration announced it is providing logistical support to import about 16 million 6-ounce baby formula bottles from Mexico. The project starts this weekend. It involves the Department of Health and Human Services expediting trucks that will drive about 1 million...

A month after President Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to import emergency supplies of infant formula, store shelves are still half empty and brands shipped on U.S. military planes from other countries are not yet helping many families struggling to find critical specialty brands. The U.S. government began importing infant formula from Switzerland, the United Kingdom and elsewhere one month ago. It launched Operation Fly Formula to address a shortage that was triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic, a major formula recall and a decision by the FDA to shutter one of the nation’s top formula-producing plants for several months...

Vice President Harris welcomed another shipment of infant formula from overseas at the Dulles, Va., airport on Friday and said that the administration will have brought in 13 million eight-ounce bottles through its “Operation Fly Formula” airlift by the end of the week. Harris and second gentleman Doug Emhoff met with aviation and transportation workers aiding the formula delivery at the airport outside Washington.

Many factors contributed to the shutdown of an Abbott Nutrition formula manufacturing plant earlier this year and the subsequent baby formula shortage crisis, and now it appears the FDA's COVID-19 insanity was one of the reasons why. Under normal circumstances, the FDA inspects baby formula plants once a year. In 2020 and 2021, citing a number of COVID related concerns, the agency neglected to visit most of the nation’s formula plants, including Abbott's Sturgis, Michigan plant, the largest in the country. According to the Associated Press, part of why the FDA did far fewer inspections than normal in 2020 is...

Before the introduction of commercial baby formula, most mothers who could not breastfeed, or who chose not to, would make formula for their child at home. The recipes for homemade baby formula almost always included Karo syrup as an ingredient. While the syrup is not approved for feeding babies today, it's interesting to know how such a common ingredient was used to feed infants in the past.

Infant formula provides the sole source of nutrition for infants who are not being breast fed and often supplements breast milk for those who are. Only 47% of infants are exclusively breast fed in the first three months of life, a figure that declines to 26% by six months. Specialty formulas are the only nutrition option for infants who, because of medical problems, cannot utilize standard formulas or breast milk. It’s also one of the most regulated foods in our country. The Food and Drug Administration’s strict nutritional and labeling requirements make it difficult for foreign producers to export formula...

VIDEOIt has been two weeks since I last checked out the baby section of Walmart here in Broward County, Florida and it is STILL completely devoid of liquid baby formula. In fact, not only is all the liquid formula still absent, it appears there is even FEWER powdered baby formula. Yeah, Team Biden declared over two weeks ago that they are on top of this and they seem to be as successful in this endeavor as they are in lowering gasoline and food prices.I will probably check the same shelves at this Walmart in a couple of weeks but don't...

VIDEOOn June 1, 2022 a virtual White House conference was convened in order to address the baby formula shortage crises. As you can see, a very low energy Joe Biden was struggling with ennui as Mr. Sandman kept beckoning him to nod off to sleep.

President Joe Biden acknowledged Wednesday he did not know about the infant formula shortage soon enough. “I don’t think anyone anticipated the impact of the shutdown of one facility,” Biden said to reporters when asked why he did not act sooner to help end shortages.

Parents still struggle to find baby formula. The left and most media (sorry, same thing?) blame “corporate power run amok.” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says, “There might be a need for indictment!” They blame Abbott Laboratories, because it shut down a Similac plant. The Food and Drug Administration says unsanitary conditions led to deaths of two infants, but Abbott denies that its formula recall had anything to do with those deaths. In any case, one factory closure doesn’t normally cause massive shortages. My new video gives the real reason for the formula shortage. First: bans on imports. There’s plenty of...

President Joe Biden will meet infant formula manufacturers on Wednesday in an effort to solve ongoing supply chain problems, almost four months after the product first started disappearing off shelves. The White House said Biden would host a roundtable with leaders of manufacturers ByHeart, Bubs Australia, Reckitt, Perrigo Co. and Gerber.

The Biden baby formula crisis worsened over the past month. California parents are now traveling to Tijuana to purchase baby formula. The out-of-stock rate hit 70% last week — nearly double the rate from April. And in Michigan they’re waiting in lines over a mile long to get baby formula for their babies. This is your country under the Pelosi-Biden regime.

Joe Biden announced late Friday that Australia will ship more than 1.25 million cans of baby formula by the planeload to the U.S. to help address the nationwide shortage. The varieties include “easy-digest” goat’s milk, organic grass-fed cows milk and specialty formulas. Biden tweeted news the Australian supplier would ultimately fly 22.5 million bottles of formula (there are 22 bottles of formula per can) some 9,700 miles across the Pacific Ocean at his request. The development came after Jill Biden staged a media photo-op with pallets of baby formula flown in from Germany on Wednesday.

The American empire is in a state of accelerating collapse, and there’s no turning it around. This once-great empire now cannot achieve the most basic of tasks that even isolated jungle tribes can still manage to do: feed their own babies. Somehow, with all the high-tech dazzle, iPhones, high-frequency Wall Street trading, electric vehicles, space rockets and all the rest, America still can’t figure out how to feed babies … something that ancient homo sapiens have been doing for hundreds of thousands of years. Even before the invention of the wheel, humanity’s ancestors knew how to feed their babies. They...

Last October, a conscientious whistleblower at Abbott Nutrition wrote a letter directly to the interim chief of the FDA, acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, and others. He claimed there were serious problems at the company’s Sturgis, Mich. plant.But the current head of the agency, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, will testify before a congressional committee today that the top levels of the agency weren’t aware of the whistleblower’s report because of “mailroom issues.”Dozens of infants are currently being hospitalized because the specialty formula they depend on to survive is out of stock.And the FDA had “mailroom issues.”Politico:Up until now, however, FDA officials...