regulators and Abbott Nutrition hope to have its Michigan plant reopened next week, but it will take about two months before product is ready for delivery. health and safety standards, so it can get to store shelves faster, according to the USDA.Īlfamino is primarily available through hospitals and home health care companies that serve patients at home. Under "Operation Fly Formula," the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services are authorized to request Department of Defense support to pick up overseas infant formula that meets U.S. "We prioritized these products because they serve a critical medical purpose as they are for children with cow’s milk protein allergies." "At Nestle we are absolutely committed to doing everything we can to get parents and caregivers the formula they need so their children can thrive," it added. "We have significantly increased the amount of our formulas available to consumers by ramping up production and accelerating general product availability to retailers and online, as well as through hospitals and home health care for those most vulnerable," the company said in a release. Nestle said that over the past few months it has worked "around the clock" to address the formula shortage and help meet demand. formula from Ramstein Air Base would be bound for a Nestle facility in Pennsylvania. In a statement Sunday, the White House said a Pentagon-sourced FedEx Express flight of Nestlé S.A. The formula will be offloaded into FedEx semitractor-trailers and taken to a Nestle distribution center about a mile away where the company will do a standard quality control check before distributing the supplies to hospitals, pharmacies and doctor’s offices, according to an administration official on site. Indianapolis was chosen because it is a Nestle distribution hub. Altogether, about 1.5 million 8-ounce bottles of the three formulas, which are hypoallergenic for children with cow’s milk protein allergies, are expected to arrive this week. Another 114 pallets of Gerber Good Start Extensive HA formula were expected to arrive in the coming days. The White House has said 132 pallets of Nestle Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula was to leave Ramstein Air Base in Germany for the U.S.
The crisis follows the closure of the nation's largest domestic manufacturing plant in Michigan in February due to safety issues. The Biden administration has struggled to address the nationwide shortage of formula, particularly hypoallergenic varieties.
Reckitt, owner of Mead-Johnson, can now receive priority orders of consumables like filters and other single-use products necessary to generate certain oils needed to produce infant formula, the White House said, which will allow Reckitt facilities to operate at maximum capacity. The manufacturer Abbott Nutrition can now receive priority orders of raw materials like sugar and corn syrup for infant formula, which the White House said will allow the manufacturer to increase production quickly by one-third. Later Sunday, the White House announced the first two Defense Production Act authorizations for infant formula, both coming from the Department of Health and Human Services. needs more formula providers "so that no individual company has this much control over supply chains." The flights are intended to provide "some incremental relief in the coming days" as the government works on a more lasting response to the shortage, Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, said Sunday.ĭeese told CNN’s "State of the Union" that Sunday’s flight brought 15% of the specialty medical grade formula needed in the U.S., and because of various actions by the government, people should see "more formula in stores starting as early as this week." Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in Indianapolis to greet the arrival of the first shipment.
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