After baby milk powder, tampons have now become scarce on the shelves of some stores in the US. Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens confirm that some brands are temporarily out of stock in certain regions. Republicans blamed US President Joe Biden.
The manufacturer Procter & Gamble admitted that customers in the US may not be able to fall back on their usual hygiene products. The group assured “it was a temporary situation”. The factories produced “tampons 24 hours a day to meet the increased demand for our products”.
Manufacturer Edgewell pointed to “long labor shortages from two outbreaks of the omicron variant” of the coronavirus at a US factory in late 2021 and at a Canadian supplier in early 2022 as the cause of the shortage of tampons and sanitary pads. expect the situation to return to normal in the coming weeks.
Panic buying exacerbates the situation
Supply chain expert Patrick Penfield of Syracuse University in New York state says the shortages are due to panic buying “like toilet paper at the start of the pandemic.” There is also a shortage of certain raw materials, including cotton and plastic. A lack of staff due to the pandemic is another reason for the production problems. He estimates that the situation will return to normal in the next six months.
Just a lack of baby milk
Recently, a shortage of baby milk powder in the United States caused political uproar. US President Biden therefore ordered an airlift in mid-May to bring infant formula from abroad with military aircraft. Opposition Republicans used the newfound bottlenecks for further attacks on the government. It was a “war that Biden started against women,” the party said on Twitter.
Source: Krone
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