There was a bill put through the house this week to get more baby formula on the shelves-192 repubs out of 208 voted no on the bill-it passed anyways.
Biden signed the defense production act middle of last week to get producers to the front of the line for supplies to make formula and to get it to the shelves faster.
they also brought into Indy last night a C17 full of 132 pallets of the specialty formula to be dispersed to the people in need. And more is coming.
How did it get here-the FDA shut down the Abbott plant in Michigan after some kids got sick and a couple died. The FDA is still working with that plant to get back up and running.
I think the big issue with the formula shortage and many, many other necessities is that corporate buyouts and consolidation has been going on back to Reagan and Clinton and the outsourcing of production which leads to big issues during commodity shortages or pandemic or war in areas of the world.
We need more competition and more manufactures-we also need to stop with the just in time crap-
There were (2) companies making 95% of the baby formula being made in this country-and one of them is partially down.
and also there was one other issue that lead to the baby formula shortage-the revised nafta deal that trump redid and signed a couple years ago limited imports of dairy-which is what baby formula is classified under; so Canada has plenty of formula-it is almost impossible to import it into the US.
This would not normally be a bid deal as we make normally about 99% of the formula we need and the import restrictions was a bi partisan deal to protect dairy farmers during covid. but the deal was signed in 2020.
This is the most honest response I've seen to this topic, and of course he was immediately trolled by the alt-right after posting.
