78,000 pounds of specialty infant formula has arrived in Indianapolis on a military plane. It's the first of several flights carrying formula from Europe expected this weekend to help relieve the deepening U.S. shortage.
Indianapolis was chosen because it is a Nestle distribution hub. The formula will be offloaded into FedEx semitractor-trailers and taken to a Nestle distribution center about a mile away where the company will do a standard quality control check before distributing the supplies to hospitals, pharmacies and doctor’s offices, according to an administration official on site.
The flight was the first of several to provide “some incremental relief in the coming days” as the government works on a more lasting response to the shortage, Brian Deese, director of the White House National Economic Council, said Sunday. Longer term, he said, the U.S. needs more formula providers “so that no individual company has this much control over supply chains.”
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