What's behind the US baby formulasi shortage - and how to make sure it doesn't happen again
There are really two faktors that have driven the current shortage. First, we have the suplai chain masalah, which has affected all manner of goods since the onset of the pandemi. It eased off a little, but then at the beginning of 2022 Bisnis it became worse. Then in February a major baby formulasi manufaktur plant in U.S. went down. The FDA shut down Abbott Nutrition's faktory in Michigan. The closure came after Abbott's nationwide recall of multiple brands of formulasi, including routine Similac cow milk-based formulas such as Similac Advance and several specialty formulas for allergic babies, including Similac Alimentum and and Similac EleCare. Closing the faktory had to be done amid an investigation into bacterial infections in connection to powdered formulasi produced at the plant, and the deaths of at least two babies. The masalah is there just isn't much redundancy in U.S. infant formulasi production. In other words, there aren't enough other faktories to pic