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Looks like a store supply crisis has not gone away?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl … rents.html
Baby formula shortage hits 'crisis' level, sparking panic in parents across US
https://www.foxla.com/news/baby-formula … -across-us
Formula shortage: 40% of major brands sold out across the U.S., analysts say
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Nearly 70% of babies in the U.S., or nearly 3 million babies, are fed infant formula and get some or all of their nutritional needs from it, according to a 2016 review based on FDA data. As the baby formula shortage continues, experts say parents and caregivers should reach out to pediatricians and seek help from resources like the federal Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program. If a child needs specialized formula, like a hydrolyzed formula for a baby with allergies, they should talk to their child's pediatrician or care team, like a pediatric dietitian, gastroenterolgist or nephrologist.
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Part of the issue is bacteria and other unclean plants issues that have cause deaths...
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The Whats really behind America's Shocking Baby-Formula Shortage?
In many states, including Texas and Tennessee, more than half of formula is sold out in stores. Nationwide, 40 percent of formula is out of stock—a twentyfold increase since the first half of 2021. As parents have started to stockpile formula, retailers such as Walgreens, CVS, and Target have all moved to limit purchases.
The everything shortage isn’t new. But rationing essentials for desperate parents? That’s a twisted turn in the story of American scarcity.
Three factors are driving the U.S. baby-formula shortage: bacteria, a virus, and a trade policy.
First, the bacteria. After the recent deaths of at least two infants from a rare infection, the Food and Drug Administration investigated Abbott, a major producer of infant formula, and discovered traces of the pathogen Cronobacter sakazakii in a Michigan plant. As a result, the FDA recalled several brands of formula, and parents were advised to not buy or use some formula tied to the plant.
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Babies aren't that profitable, but without babies there is no "next generation of humanity".
Cleaning up poop isn't all that profitable, either, but the alternative is having the entire place carry the stench of raw sewage.
Wow.. Just wow.
On the other hand, it costs a small fortune to cremate or bury someone. Maybe there's a method to the madness.
The sheer number of recent food distribution center fires is beginning to look a little suspicious as well.
If there's any plan at all, then it isn't a very good one.
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Ya hou knew that those 18 plus years after birth would be such....
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Oh no invoking the 1950 law President Joe Biden on Wednesday invoked the Defense Production Act in a major step to boost the supply of baby formula
The House is slated to vote on a pair of bills Wednesday night designed to increase access to baby formula under a federal program and boost funding for the Food and Drug Administration to hire more employees.
Operation Fly Formula, to speed up the import of infant formula and start getting more formula in stores as soon as possible,
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For SpaceNut re #7
The quote you provided did not show two elements that represent a significant breakthrough ...
The FDA blockage against European baby food has magically cleared .... ** and ** the US military will airlift supplies from Europe to the US.
Both of those elements, in combination, should put a dent in the problem.
I'm hoping some alert reporters can find out if corruption was the cause of the European blockage.
The US manufacturers had a sweet deal going, until they were caught short.
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Off brand products that enter the US do go through a process for quality control checks by the FDA to ensure that they are safe and not tainted. So the trick is to have your business in the US as well to be able to easy into this issue.
There still appears to be a significant GOP faction that resists doing anything....
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SpaceNut,
1. The "GOP faction that resists doing anything" is political propaganda from your Democrat Party over their refusal to throw more money at the problem when the existing money already earmarked to deal with this problem has not been used at all. Re-tweeting lies from known liars, for political purposes, is not how you solve technical or management problems.
2. There is already $102M specifically intended to help correct the existing problems. It has not been used. This is an issue that your party would address if they knew how, but they don't, so they won't.
3. The Democrats tried to sneak in an additional $28M to another pork bill, but can't say who the money will go to or what it's being used for, so that is what Republicans objected to and refused to vote for. Since your party has a majority in the Congress and Senate and holds the Presidency, it shouldn't matter in the slightest what Republicans do or don't object to.
4. Throwing money around like confetti is not "problem solving". This is not a problem that will be solved by money, because it's a problem caused by egregiously bad public policy and bad management. No amount of money can ever solve that type of problem.
5. Ask the people from your own Democrat Party why the money earmarked for restarting baby formula production has not been used. They are the ones who really should answer that question. You have money available, but you haven't used it, so why haven't you used it?
Democrats are supposed to be in charge of the government, even if they're utterly incompetent to be in charge of anything. They have a majority in Congress and the Senate, as well as the Presidency. They've known that baby formula production was a worsening problem since February of this year, but they're just now getting around to blaming Republicans for Democrats' refusal to prioritize fixing real world problems over Democrat political games that simultaneously exacerbate very real existing problems while fixating on imaginary problems.
That kind of insanity is precisely why they're very likely to lose their majorities in the Congress and Senate, come November. The only thing Democrats know how to do is to blame others for the problems that their own bad policy decisions cause. Once you Democrats latch onto an abhorrently bad idea, you refuse to ever let go of it, even if it kills you. Voting for Republicans is merely an act of self-preservation to prevent Democrats from killing everyone as a result of Democrats' absurdly bad ideas.
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Right here in Houston, this same kind of inexplicable nonsense has been exhibited by our own Democrat Mayor, Mayor Sylvester Turner. Mayor Turner was given billions of dollars by our federal government after Hurricane Harvey, for the express purpose of improving flooding drainage, but he never issued a single contract to do that work. After about a year or so, all of that signed / sealed / delivered money went right back to our federal government, and of course, our ability to drain off water from major flooding events like hurricanes was never improved. I could personally care less if he granted contracts to all of his buddies in construction, so long as they did the necessary work instead of squandering it or thumbing their noses at Uncle Sam.
Why in Flying Spaghetti Monster's name does your party's politicians keeping doing this crap to their own people?
It doesn't help them, it doesn't help the people they're supposed to serve, and we all become poorer after the next avoidable disaster strikes as a result. Unless the end goal was to purposefully hurt the people they were elected to represent, then it doesn't make a lick of sense. That's why I call voting for Republicans an act of self-preservation. I don't really like any politicians, but when they do something that actually helps people, then I give them credit. If they do nothing at all or worse than nothing at all, then I lambast them, because that is the #1 reason why we have a #1 Amendment to our US Constitution.
I don't give a crap who runs the lemonade stand so long as they get the job done. It's a rather simple management job. You mix lemon juice, water, and sugar together in a pot or jar. You then pour it out into small cups for each customer. You sell it to your customers at just above what it cost you to make it and staff the stand, which ensures that your customers get a refreshing drink and that your lemonade stand stays in business. When people either deliberately or incompetently ruin said business by refusing to sell the product, failing to go to the store to purchase the raw ingredients, refusing to show up to work to staff the stand, or failing to charge prices that both cover costs and remain affordable to the patrons, then that's when I start to question if those involved really want to be in the lemonade business.
America is a business. Period. We sell food and beverages, fuels, high-tech manufactured products such as computers / cell phones / radios / vehicles of every description from cars to ships to exploration class rockets, weapons, and technical services (medical care / engineering / consulting). All of that technological innovation requires assured supplies of food (from cradle-to-grave- babies are no less important than working age adults or grandma), raw materials, and staggering quantities of energy. Anybody who threatens the functionality of that highly profitable business model needs to be shown the door. There is no good reason to tinker with the systems that made America so wildly successful.
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I agree that money given by the federal government for projects needs to be used for its purpose. In NH this occurs sometimes and other times not as we still have many red labeled bridges with in the state that is no being put onto the backs of the tax payer instead since action to make repairs was not done. The covid money was another that was returned not being used.
Whether its a democrat or Republican in office makes no difference to me as the work needs to get done.
It is my understanding that the most baby milk is to be made available to the WIC program which gives aid to the low income families.
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The measure, titled the Formula Act, initially cleared the House in a bipartisan 421-2 vote.
Hours later, Rep. Rick Allen (R-Ga.) said he voted against the bill incorrectly, filing the formal documentation to change his vote from “no” to “yes.”
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Biden turned to a wartime power his first day in office. Will he rely on it even more?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-turned … 48028.html
Trucker drops a load of baby formula, female trucker watches and records the people who receive it take it, and destroy it.
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U.S. To Get Base Powder For 6 Mln Bottles Of Specialty Formula From Mexico
https://markets.businessinsider.com/new … 1031674980
Biden must demand the timid FDA act as the baby-formula shortage grows even worse
https://nypost.com/2022/08/08/biden-mus … ven-worse/
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