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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFDA set to allow sale of foreign baby formula in US, hoping it's the magic bullet to end shortage
USA TODAY via Yahoo NewsForeign-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.
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
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
HAB911
(9,012 posts)1. LOL, what's the worst that could happen?
In It to Win It
(8,414 posts)2. Considering that domestic production didn't go so well
What other choice is there for immediate relief?
chowder66
(9,174 posts)3. +1
HAB911
(9,012 posts)4. No idea. I'm of the camp that asks
"how did the human race survive without manufactured baby formula?" There must be a way
Mariana
(14,867 posts)8. The human race survived, but some babies didn't.
Where I live, they called it "inanition" in the old death records when babies died of starvation.
questionseverything
(9,685 posts)5. If we need to import formula it should be from some where we can trust
Like Canada
Not just anywhere
In It to Win It
(8,414 posts)6. The only place I've heard formula being imported from (so far) was Canada
I don't know what the FDA is thinking but so far the only place that I've heard floating around was Canada
Baitball Blogger
(46,884 posts)7. I wonder what the right will do when the babies start liking foreign baby food better.
LiberalFighter
(51,958 posts)9. But the babies don't know how to read foreign languages.