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US baby formula shortage

March 2023

  • A few cans of Enfamil Nutramigen hypoallergenic toddler formula are seen on a shelf in a Target store.

    A year on, many US parents are still reeling from baby formula shortage

    Families in rural towns still faced with empty shelves, purchase limitations and fewer options of infant formula

June 2022

  • US-BABY FORMULA-HEALTH-FOOD<br>The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Michigan, on May 13, 2022. - Abbott representatives announced on Wednesday that the Sturgis plant could reopen within the next two weeks, subject to FDA approval. The company initiated a voluntary recall after two infants became sick and two died with traces of Cronobacter sakazakii, a common environmental bacteria, found in their systems after consuming formula produced in the plant. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY/AFP via Getty Images)

    Key US baby formula plant closes again as ‘torrential storms’ cause flooding

    Production halt at Abbott Laboratories in Michigan will probably extend shortages for ‘a few weeks’
  • Baby formula sits in a fridge outside Glassmanor Community Center in Maryland.

    US infant formula shortage: doctors worry about babies’ development as crisis continues

    Despite US efforts to increase supply, there are reports of babies being rushed to hospitals and a growing black market for formula
  • A sign in front of a white and brick building reads 'Abbott'.

    Michigan baby formula maker resumes production after safety shutdown

    The Abbott facility was closed in February after a recall involving bacterial infections in infants which led to a nationwide shortage

May 2022

  • A sign for baby formula over an empty shelf in a store in Perth Amboy, New Jersey

    Australian company to ship baby formula to shortage-hit US

  • Close-up view of mother feeding her baby with infant formula bottle at home.

    UK baby milk maker to fly formula to US to help ease shortages

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Who’s to blame for the US baby milk crisis? Not mothers who can’t be bothered to breastfeed

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Black women often don’t get breastfeeding support from the white medical community, advocates say.

    Our unequal earth
    Baby formula shortage highlights inequality in US maternal support

  • Military plane rushes baby formula to US health systems

  • Tell us: how have you been affected by the US baby formula shortage?

  • Senate bill will help food aid recipients find baby formula amid shortage

  • Biden uses Defense Production Act to tackle US baby formula crisis

  • The US is running out of baby formula: yet more evidence that new mothers can never win

    Emma Brockes

  • Biden invokes Defense Production Act to tackle baby formula shortage

  • Why is there a baby formula shortage in the US, and what can parents do?

  • Baby formula maker Abbott to restart production amid US shortage

  • Biden works to fix US formula crisis as parents scramble to keep babies fed

  • US infant formula shortage: what you need to know

  • Abbott says two months for baby formula to hit shelves amid US shortage

  • ‘It’s a nightmare’: baby formula shortage leaves US parents desperate

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