The first shipment, carrying 78,000 pounds of specialty infant formula, arrived Sunday.
Empty shelves show a shortage of baby formula at a Target store in San Antonio, Texas, May 10, 2022.Express has secured a government contract to bring another shipment of infant formula to the U.S. on Wednesday, NBC News reported.
The Express plane will fly from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C. It's unclear how much formula the plane will carry. The move is meant to address a critical shortage of baby formula in the United States after top formula makerclosed a manufacturing plant following reports of bacterial infections in four infants.
Abbott said it would take about two weeks to reopen the plant and up to eight weeks for products to hit the shelves nationwide. That's left a wide gap for scores of parents across the nation. In an effort to ease the burden, the Food and Drug Administration is increasing baby formula imports from other countries. The first shipment, carrying 78,000 pounds of specialty infant formula,
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