US President Joe Biden has made supplying his country with powdered milk for infants a top priority. His government is also resorting to a gun law, including an airlift. Meanwhile, the first aid delivery from Europe has arrived. A US military plane carrying several tons of urgent food landed in the US state of Indiana on Sunday.
The Boeing C-17 with more than 31 tons of milk powder had departed from the Ramstein military base in Germany. “We have a second flight to carry the specialty infant formula from Nestle to Pennsylvania,” Biden said on Twitter. The next delivery should arrive “in the next few days”. The first shipment will cover about 15 percent of immediate needs, the president’s economic adviser Brian Deese told CNN. The infant formula was flown to Indiana, where a Nestlé hub is located. There it is quality tested in a nearby lab before being distributed in the country.
Supply bottleneck due to Corona and production loss
There has been a shortage of baby milk powder in the US for several months now. The reason for the shortage of baby food is a series of circumstances: during the corona pandemic, the production of baby milk powder decreased due to supply bottlenecks and staff shortages. Then, in February, Abbott was forced to close a milk powder factory in Michigan after the death of two babies.
The Food Safety Authority inspection showed the product was OK – last week the authority and Abbott agreed to resume production. But it will be weeks before the milk powder is back on the supermarket shelves.
Source: Krone
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