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(12,809 posts)
Mon May 16, 2022, 03:21 PM May 2022

FDA set to allow sale of foreign baby formula in US, hoping it's the magic bullet to end shortage

USA TODAY via Yahoo News

Foreign-made baby formula could be made available in the U.S. in an attempt to ease the ongoing shortage, the Food and Drug Administration told CNN Monday.

An announcement may come by the end of the day, FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf told the cable network's Kaitlan Collins in an interview.

Offering this formula in U.S. stores "would have a big effect because we'll have access to a lot more formula from different manufacturers," said Califf.

The imported formula could boost supply so that it's "back to normal" within a few weeks, Califf said.

Califf also provided an update on an Abbott plant in Sturgis, Michigan, that was shut down amid a recall earlier this year, helping to cause the formula shortage.

Once Abbott and the FDA reach an agreement on how to reopen the plant and guarantee product safety, he said it should begin shipping formula within two weeks and that the factory would be back up to full speed a few weeks after that.
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FDA set to allow sale of foreign baby formula in US, hoping it's the magic bullet to end shortage (Original Post) In It to Win It May 2022 OP
LOL, what's the worst that could happen? HAB911 May 2022 #1
Considering that domestic production didn't go so well In It to Win It May 2022 #2
+1 chowder66 May 2022 #3
No idea. I'm of the camp that asks HAB911 May 2022 #4
The human race survived, but some babies didn't. Mariana May 2022 #8
If we need to import formula it should be from some where we can trust questionseverything May 2022 #5
The only place I've heard formula being imported from (so far) was Canada In It to Win It May 2022 #6
I wonder what the right will do when the babies start liking foreign baby food better. Baitball Blogger May 2022 #7
But the babies don't know how to read foreign languages. LiberalFighter May 2022 #9

In It to Win It

(12,809 posts)
2. Considering that domestic production didn't go so well
Mon May 16, 2022, 03:27 PM
May 2022

What other choice is there for immediate relief?

HAB911

(10,586 posts)
4. No idea. I'm of the camp that asks
Mon May 16, 2022, 03:35 PM
May 2022

"how did the human race survive without manufactured baby formula?" There must be a way

Mariana

(15,630 posts)
8. The human race survived, but some babies didn't.
Mon May 16, 2022, 04:38 PM
May 2022

Where I live, they called it "inanition" in the old death records when babies died of starvation.

In It to Win It

(12,809 posts)
6. The only place I've heard formula being imported from (so far) was Canada
Mon May 16, 2022, 03:49 PM
May 2022

I don't know what the FDA is thinking but so far the only place that I've heard floating around was Canada

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