The formula shortage is finally bringing
attention to the FDA’s labeling games
that have angered many moms for years.
The Federalist,
by
Madeline Osburn
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
5/12/2022 11:56:27 AM
Months after distressed moms have been vocally upset and concerned about the baby formula shortage, the media is finally starting to ask, how could this happen? The short answer is lockdown supply chains and the shutdown of one of the country’s largest formula plants in Michigan (Snip) Freeman said her clients and industry contacts began noticing an FDA crackdown on European formulas in the last few years, before the lockdowns, but an even greater spike since last August, well before the Abbott recall and plant shutdown that many are pointing to as the source of the shortage.(Snip)In some ways, the FDA seems more concerned about labeling than the nutrients themselves.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/12/2022 12:01:11 PM (No. 1153211)
Government bureaucracy at its worst; a true danger to public health.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 5/12/2022 12:07:07 PM (No. 1153216)
They're determined to get those darn babies one way or another.
9 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
2assume 5/12/2022 12:15:30 PM (No. 1153230)
https://walls-work.org/bill-gates-backed-company-now-pushing-biomilk-as-baby-formula-crisis-worsens-for-american-mothers-videos/
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
columba 5/12/2022 12:17:27 PM (No. 1153231)
"the media is finally starting to ask" it reads. But who cares what the media says or does. The media is a consitent liar.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
vrb8m 5/12/2022 12:19:07 PM (No. 1153235)
Heard this morning on the radio that there is no shortage of baby formula at the border, that there are pallets of the stuff down there, courtesy of biden.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bgarrett 5/12/2022 12:20:31 PM (No. 1153238)
Whats wrong with American womens breasts???
Mothers milk is best for babies. Nothing else even comes close
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Right Time 5/12/2022 12:21:42 PM (No. 1153241)
Trump would have fixed this weeks ago.
Biden can't do anything right.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
2assume 5/12/2022 12:27:14 PM (No. 1153248)
The link I posted is about Bill Gates having a baby formula ready to market. Do you trust the life of your baby to Bill Gates? I suggest everyone read up on him. He has a very interesting history.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lakerman1 5/12/2022 12:28:08 PM (No. 1153249)
Why don't the European formula makers add some iron for shipments to the U.S.? Abbott could act as short term importer of the European brands.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/12/2022 1:18:07 PM (No. 1153287)
I'm getting rather sick of this problem and I haven't bought baby formula in about 35 years.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
msjena 5/12/2022 1:24:20 PM (No. 1153290)
We're the government and we're here to help.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/12/2022 1:33:43 PM (No. 1153299)
My mother fed us whole milk with Karo syrup for "formula" on the doc's advice. C'mon, there's more out there than a chemical set in a can.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/12/2022 1:33:57 PM (No. 1153300)
Besides having unresolved sanitation problems at the Abbott factory that keeps it closed, the FDA bureaucracy is compounding the matter by having a bureaucracy which will not budge an inch for something that does not effect safety or quality of the baby formula. Of course, the Biden administration will never consider changing the regulations since that is too simple a solution and regulations what Democrats are all about. Also remember that there are other brands of formula besides those made by Abbott. Meade Johnson also makes a wide range of formulas in the US. How about the War Powers act for baby formula?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/12/2022 1:36:26 PM (No. 1153302)
D-D-Go baby formula recipes. It is so simple. A can of regular evaporated milk, some water, clear Karo corn syrup, molasses, or honey, mix in the blender, and boom you have baby formula. I knew this shortage was coming a month ago and went to Walmart and bought 6 large cans of formula mix that my friend feeds her newborn. About $30/can, but now you can't get it, and I am hearing it is going for three to four times that.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/12/2022 1:38:39 PM (No. 1153307)
Oh, for ccrying out loud! I would never ever give my babies formula imported from another country. Two sturdy boys, now grown men, were given formula made from evaporated milk, Karo syrup, and water. Put into sterile bottles and refrigerated. Heated for their consumption.
Mercifully we could not afford commercially made baby formula.
All of the babies we knew back in the 50s and 60s and maybe before and after that era were fed the homemade stuff and nobody thought a thing of it. They were also given liquid baby vitamins from a dropper on the tongue. Now we have pharma telling us that only their products give adequate nutrition. They focus on the brain for added fear porn value. Thank God I didn’t have to swim upstream against Big Pharma to raise my healthy boys...
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/12/2022 3:25:35 PM (No. 1153394)
#6, I’m an adoptive mother. How in the world was I supposed to breast feed a 22 hour old baby when I had not been pregnant? Women don’t produce breast milk at will. There are many other reasons why breast feeding isn’t always an option.
As to Karo syrup - great - get kids hooked on outrageously unhealthy high fructose corn syrup from the beginning. Not.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
DVC 5/12/2022 3:33:45 PM (No. 1153402)
Bureaucrats HAVE to find somebody to screw over. It's in their fundamental nature. Wrecking things is normal for them, especially if it is pointless and shows that they can do it "Just because I said so!"
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 5/12/2022 3:44:33 PM (No. 1153417)
It is all part of the Democrat plan....If you don't abort them, starve them to death and act like there is nothing you can do to solve the problem.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
MDConservative 5/12/2022 3:55:40 PM (No. 1153433)
#16...have you looked at the ingredients for Abbott baby formula? For example, take Abbott's hypo-allergenic Elecare: Corn Syrup Solids (55%). Pediasure: Corn Syrup, Sugar. Get 'em hooked early...
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
TLCary 5/12/2022 4:54:21 PM (No. 1153475)
#6 I have a niece that is handicapped for life because her mother's milk didn't have the nutrition she required as an infant. The cult of breastfeeding insisted that she stick with it, and these people don't pull their punches when they are criticizing a new mother scared to death that she isn't doing what's best for her baby. There is absolutely NO data that shows that kids fed breast milk get any developmental benefits. The immunity benefits from the mother's milk can be helpful (if you live in a third-world hell hole). It's statistically irrelevant in suburbia.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
berthabutt 5/12/2022 5:43:17 PM (No. 1153502)
We've been sharing the 1960's formula recipe around online for a few days. For some goat's milk can be an alternative, as per our kids' pediatricians. To an earlier post on adding honey to baby formula instead of Karo syrup -- that is a big NO. Babies should not get honey before their first birthday for botulism risk! The shortage isn't expected to go on indefinitely, so any substitutions now should still fill their dietary needs. Ask your baby doctor or nurse if they need iron supplements as well.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
privateer 5/12/2022 5:53:39 PM (No. 1153516)
For those who do not wish to dip from Archer Daniels Midland's 'Golden Fountain', how about substituting locally-sourced honey? It might have other benefits; I couldn't say.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 5/12/2022 10:51:02 PM (No. 1153762)
FDA - Forking Dumb Arses.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
Highlander 5/13/2022 9:27:10 AM (No. 1154032)
Years ago, I was talking to a Mexican fellow-worker, who told me that his wife fed their babies Jello water. That surprised me.
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