Roughly 95,000 cans of baby formula were flown into the United States from Australia on June 12 amid a nationwide shortage, marking the fourth flight of “Operation Fly Formula.”
Bubs Australia Ltd said in May that it planned to ship at least 1.25 million containers of its baby formula to the United States in an effort to alleviate supply issues.
The New South Wales-based company announced on June 10 that it had reached a deal with American grocery chains Kroger Co. and Albertsons to import the formula as part of the Biden administration’s “Operation Fly Formula.”
Under that operation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services has been granted permission to use Department of Defense-contracted commercial aircraft to pick up infant formula from overseas “that meets U.S. health and safety standards, so it can get to store shelves faster.”…