Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials told the House Oversight subcommittee that factors that led to a shortage of baby formula had been identified but remained unchanged. Witnesses at a March 28 hearing of the Health Care and Financial Services subcommittee said the agency would need more funding, enforcement authority, and a better organizational…

Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials told the House Oversight subcommittee that factors that led to a shortage of baby formula had been identified but remained unchanged. Witnesses at a March 28 hearing of the Health Care and Financial Services subcommittee said the agency would need more funding, enforcement authority, and a better organizational…

Republicans on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee are pressing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for information about the agency’s response to the nationwide infant formula shortage. In a March 21 letter (pdf) to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) and Rep. Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), chair of the Subcommittee on…

Abbott Laboratories has reopened its Sturgis, Michigan baby formula plant, which was shut last month due to heavy rains, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Saturday. Abbott resumed operations on July 1 and has started producing specialty baby formula EleCare. The company which has been at the center of a baby formula shortage in the…

SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Amid the baby formula shortage, mothers are looking for other ways to make up for the lack of milk. Some turn to milk banks for help. Mothers’ Milk Bank in San Jose was started in 1974 to feed premature infants. It is the oldest operating milk bank in North America. The non-profit is…

LOS ANGELES—The Los Angeles City Council on June 10 ratified a local emergency declaration by Mayor Eric Garcetti to prevent local price gouging amid the shortage of baby formula across the United States. “President Biden, the Federal Trade Commission and the California Attorney General have all warned of illegal and predatory conduct, including price gouging,…

Abbott Laboratories said on Saturday that it has reopened its baby formula production plant in Sturgis, Michigan, taking a step toward alleviating an acute nationwide shortage that has sent parents scrambling for supplies. The company said it will begin production of EleCare and other specialty and metabolic formulas, with initial EleCare product release to consumers…

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen admitted that she was wrong about rising inflation. She was among those who initially said that inflation would be temporary, if at all. Vance Ginn is chief economist at the Texas Public Policy Institute, and he’ll be joining us to assess the key factors driving inflation. What’s the administration’s latest step…

LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles County has purchased $750,000 worth of baby formula to fight the current shortage, Supervisor Hilda L. Solis announced. “I know many parents and caregivers have been worried and anxious due to the shortage of baby formula,” Solis said in a statement on Friday, May 27. “As the county government, it is our…

Commentary In Charles Dickens’s much-loved story “A Christmas Carol,” the crotchety protagonist, Ebenezer Scrooge, is visited by three spirits. The third visitor, the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, gave Scrooge a sneak preview of how bleak and tragic his life would be if he stayed on the same course. Our country is on a…