A U.S. military plane arrived in Indianapolis, Indiana, early Sunday morning carrying 35 tons of baby formula amid a nationwide shortage.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who was there Sunday morning to welcome the shipment, said the shipment would provide a formula for about 9,000 babies and 18,000 toddlers for one week.
“It is a large shipment of very specific and specialized formula,” the secretary said on Sunday morning, reported CNN. “Formula for moms and dads who have children who have allergies where the regular formula just simply will not work.”
The formula was made in Nestle’s plant in Zurich, Germany, and it was sent via the Ramstein U.S. Air Base on a C-17 cargo plane to the United States. The White House and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have both scrambled to reopen an Abbott Laboratories baby formula facility in Sturgis, Michigan, that has been shut down for months amid an FDA investigation into whether bacteria contaminated some of the company’s products….