The White House has announced that more than 20 million bottles of milk powder will soon flow into the United States. Help make up for the ongoing national shortage.
Initially, about 16 million bottles of 8 ounces of powdered milk will be flown from Mexico to Fort Worth, Texas on Friday and distributed to retailers, officials said Wednesday.
Approximately 5.5 million Babs formulas from Melbourne, Australia to Los Angeles this week were heading to Philadelphia in early July, with more than 1.5 million Nestle bottles shipped from Germany to Texas. .. Theseries of pressesrelease stated.
Under President Joe Biden's mission of "OperationMilk Powder", federal agencies receive government-approved infant formula cargo from international distributors. , Partnered to send it back to the state and put it on the shelf. Faster.
The United States is suffering from a milk powder shortage that started due to a supply chain problem during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the country's largest milk powder factory is associated with the fear of deadly bacteria. It got worse because it was closed.
Abbott Laboratories closes Michigan factory in February Did. The Food and Drug Administration investigated whether two infant bacterial deaths and two other illnesses were associated with the facility. The
factoryreopened in early June, but said it would take eight weeks for production of the new formula to reach the store. The
FDA announced on Wednesday that it is investigating the January death of another baby who consumed formula from the factory.
The agency did not explicitly link Abbott to the dead, but the investigation revealed numerous violations at the factory.
