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Jason D. Meister 🇺🇸 @jason_meister. Twitter. There is a baby formula shortage in the United States of America. This is a public health crisis.
As Christina Szalinski reported in The New York Times, “baby formula is one of the most tightly regulated food products in the U.S.”
By Jon Miltimore, The Stream, May 16, 2022
Jonathan Miltimore is the Managing Editor of FEE.org. His writing/reporting has been the subject of articles in TIME magazine, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, Forbes, Fox News, and the Star Tribune.
Photo by Sarah Chai: https://www.pexels.com/photo/smiling-young-mother-feeding-baby-with-milk-from-bottle-7282908/
As many know, the U.S. is confronting a shortage in baby formula that has grown quite serious. What started as complaints on Twitter of “out of stock” messages on Amazon purchases has turned into a national panic.
CBS News reports that at retailers across the country, some 40 percent of the top-selling baby formula products were out of stock as of late April, according to an analysis from Datasembly.
“This is a shocking number that you don’t see for other categories,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly, told the news network.
The story got enough traction to finally get the attention of the White House.
On Monday, Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the government is doing its best to address the shortage, noting that manufacturers say they’re producing at full capacity following a product recall by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). …
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