Only America could be in a position where baby formula is made in a factory that doesn't meet government standards for purity and quality and it has to be shut down, only to cause a baby formula shortage nationwide because too few manufacturers make too much of the stuff.
And because breast-feeding is so nineteenth-century.
This was a problem before President Biden was able to get a permanent Food and Drug Administration commissioner - Robert Califf - in place to oversee food quality standards, yet the President is getting all of the blame for it. And efforts to alleviate the shortage were actually held up by in Congress the same folks who blame Biden because they wouldn't fund the FDA to inspect formula or handle supply-chain issues.
All I can say, it, I'm glad I don't have an infant child.
The first shipment of imported baby formula just came in from Germany, where they have no problem with providing enough baby formula for its citizens. Germany has plenty of company when it comes to being an industrialized nation of high food-quality standards. As an industrialized nation that's lax at that sort of thing, we're practically in a minority of one.
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