[CNN] FDA is ‘working around the clock’ to address baby formula shortage, Psaki says

Know how to address the shortage? Encourage these lazy-ass mammas to bust their t*tties out.

 

He should have let them continue Keystone XL and converted it to transport baby formula. Problem solved.

 

Sams club has been out of Lance Toastchee Cheddar Cheese crackers for more than a year. Can’t find them at the grocery stores either. I BLAME BIDEN. He should have seen this shortage coming and done something.

 

I don’t understand how sams club exists when you have costcos.

 

My baby needs two mommies then because she's putting away 5oz a feed at 2 months old. If I could grow t*tties I would since the formula we use to supplement is like $30 a week

 

Go into any drug or grocery store in America and chances are these 3 things are under lock and key:

• Baby formula
• Condoms
• Plan B

Our government should be funding and dropping this **** out of airplanes 24/7. There is zero negative outcome to fed babies and proper family planning.

 

The only real short term solution is to legalize the import of baby formula. The longer term solution is to initiate anti-trust proceedings and break up Abbot and Mead Johnson's baby formula units. You can't just fund your way out of this. We've created a system where there are only two main companies that create formula in the US and one of them is having significant issues with their production.

Abbot and Mead Johnson have basically created an oligopoly and have lobbied the government to basically prevent any other entrants. Both companies sign exclusive deals with hospitals to distribute formula because parents generally keep the brand that they got from the hospital and as a result, other companies can't enter the market. There's a third company that makes formula that is whitelabeled by Costco, Target, Walmart, etc.. But that's all you get in the US. And its not like baby formula is an incredibly complex field to enter. It's so heavily regulated that all companies follow a pretty uniform formula.

But lobbying has meant that we simply don't have a distributed number of companies that produce formula (so if one goes down, it has minimal impact on the formula supply). Instead, the largest company goes off line and destroys the market.

 

Supply catches up with demand. More demand for milk, more supply will be created. Meaning bigger TIT-TAYS

I'm serious about the lazy-ass mothers out there. I knew several who 'just didn't want to breast feed', including my lazy-ass sister, so they bought formula...which they constantly b****ed about, because they were lazy drama queens to begin with.

 

My post was not meant as a solution to the current situation, but rather a generalized rant adjacent to the problem. I want my gubbermint dropping family planning and early childhood resources out of airplanes goddamit.

 

If you want a family planning solution, look at Colorado's free IUD program for teens and their law that allows pharmacists to write birth control prescriptions (so anyone can just walk up to a pharmacist and get birth control without first having to see a doctor). I think the teen birth rate there alone is down 60-70% over a 10 year period.

 

We need someone to implement operation warp baby formula 1 speed.

 

If Trump were President, he’d seize all the formula under the defense production act, then dole it out expeditiously only to states who make him promises, and blame delays on other states for their own red tape.

and he’d promise a formula-locator website was being built as we speak…a wonderful website.

 

At the White House press conference today, the Press Secretary mistakenly said that our formulas were tainted and killed two infants. The deaths of these infants are a tragedy.

The facts, however, are critical: A comprehensive investigation by Abbott, FDA and CDC found no evidence that our formulas caused infant illnesses. Specifically CDC concluded its investigation with no findings of a link between our formulas and infant illnesses. We conduct microbiological testing on products prior to distribution and no Abbott formula distributed to consumers tested positive for Cronobacter or Salmonella.

All retained product tested by Abbott and the FDA during the inspection of the facility came back negative for Cronobacter and/or Salmonella. No Salmonella was found at the Sturgis facility.

The Cronobacter sakazakii that was found in environmental testing during the investigation was in non-product contact areas of the facility and has not been linked to any known infant illness.

Genetic sequencing on the two available samples from ill infants did not match strains of Cronobacter in our plant. Samples from ill infants did not match each other, meaning there was no connection between the two cases.

In all four cases, the state, FDA, and/or CDC tested samples of the Abbott formula that was used by the child. In all four cases, all unopened containers tested negative.

Open containers from the homes of the infants were also tested in three of the four cases; two of the three tested negative. The one positive was from an open container from the home of the infant, and it tested positive for two different strains of Cronobacter sakazakii, one of which matched the strain that caused the infant’s infection, and the other matched a strain found on a bottle of distilled water in the home used to mix the formula. Again, neither strain matched strains found in our plant.

The infants consumed four different types of our formula made over the course of nearly a year and the illnesses took place over several months in three different states.

The formula from this plant did not cause these infant illnesses.

 

Yep, my 7 month old gets all of mama's milk plus a can of formula a week. The two mommies is not a bad idea though.

 

Biden makes baby food as much as Biden is preventing oil companies from spending $$ on more drilling.

Be partisan but try not being stupid. You can do both.