Baby Formula Shortage Is Getting Worse

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Baby Formula Shortage Is Getting Worse


PENNY STARR
7 May 202254


The supply chain kinks are taking a toll on parents and their infant children as shortages of baby formula continue and, in fact, the product is one of the most directly impacted on the market.



“Since early April, baby formula out of stock rates have soared to 40 percent across the country, according to our analysis,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly, a provider of real-time product pricing, promotions, and assortment data for retailers of Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, told Breitbart News. “Baby formula demonstrated inflationary spikes in July of 2021, and the situation has continued to worsen the first few months of 2022. Inflation, supply chain shortages and product recalls have continued to bring volatility to the category, and continues to be one of the most affected products in the market.”



Breitbart News also reached out to some of the CPG retailers and received a response from Matt Blanchette, senior manager for retail communications for CVS Pharmacy.



“Following supplier challenges and increased customer demand, we currently have a limit of three baby formula products per purchase in our stores and online,” Blanchette told Breitbart News. “We’re continuing to work with our baby formula vendors to address this issue and we regret any inconvenience this causes our customers.”



Datasembly also found that in July 2021, the [Out of Stock Percentage] OOS% moved into the double digits and then started to increase significantly towards the end of November 2021 ,where it went from 11 percent nationwide to 31 precent by the week starting April 3, 2022.



For the week starting April 24, there were six states that had baby formula OOS percentages higher than 50 percent:



• Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota were 50-51 percent.



• Missouri was 52 percent.



• Texas was 53 percent and Tennessee was 54 percent.



• There were 26 states that had 40-50 percent out of stock compared to three weeks ago when there were seven.



Five American cities were hardest hit by the shortage for the week starting April 24 of OOS percentages higher than 50 percent:



Des Moines & Houston had 50 percent.

Memphis & Nashville had 52 percent.

San Antonio had 57 percent.

People Magazine reported on how the baby formula shortage is affecting parents, including Katie Ruark, who is one of the most vulnerable demographics — babies who have health issues that prevent them from breastfeeding or are in need of a special diet.



Ruark’s son depends on a hypoallergenic formula.



“We were getting close to the bottom of our can and were going to need formula that evening,” Ruark said in the People report. “My husband went to more than three stores, but there was none of our son’s type of formula in any of the places he looked. We ended up having to dip into his emergency supply at day care that day.”

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Nolte: Joe Biden’s Baby Formula Shortage Sends Mother into ‘Panic’


JOHN NOLTE
9 May 2022

Wynter Balthrop needs a specific hypoallergenic baby formula for her eight-month-old and can’t find it. Now she has no choice but to feed her daughter a formula that upsets her little stomach.



Is this a story out of Africa? South America? Mexico? The Middle East?



Nope. This is what’s happening in Joe Biden’s America.



Balthrop told Fox News she and her husband “went to six different stores and searched and called multiple others as far as three hours away from us — and we were not able to find one can or bottle of her formula.”





Baby formula on sale at a big box store on January 13, 2022 in Chicago, Illinois. Baby formula has been is short supply in many stores around the country for several months. (Scott Olson/Getty)



She added she was “panicking and sad for my girl because we had enough formula left to make one bottle — and I knew we would have to use the generic formula that hurt her stomach again. And that broke my heart.”



“I broke down in the car.”



In six different states — Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Tennessee — over half the baby formula was sold out during the week starting Sunday, April 24, said Datasembly, a Tysons, Virginia-based provider of real-time product pricing and assortment data for retailers.



“Inflation, supply chain shortages and product recalls have brought an unprecedented amount of volatility for baby formula,” said founder and CEO Ben Reich in a statement.



“We expect to continue to see the baby formula category being dramatically affected by these conditions. Baby formula stock … has been one of the more affected categories so far in 2022, and one that will continue to demonstrate higher than average out-of-stock levels,” he also said.



This is not happening in America. This is happening in Joe Biden’s America. When America is America, these things do not happen. They never happen. This is unprecedented. But in Joe Biden’s America, these things happen because, in Joe Biden’s America, America is not America.



Baby formula?



We can’t get enough baby formula?



What the hell is going on?



Well, this is what happens when Democrats are in charge. In the third-world country we call California, the residents cannot get enough water and electricity.



Another reason for this baby formula shortage is due to the corporate media. Rumblings over this shortage reach back weeks, but in order to protect Biden, the corporate media ignored it just like they ignore everything else until they no longer can, e.g., Hunter Biden’s laptop, inflation, etc.

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Why is the media reluctant to cover the American baby formula shortage?

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 by: Ethan Huff

Tags: Abbott Nutrition, baby formula, biased, big government, children's health, Collapse, food collapse, food inflation, food poisoning, food supply, grocery, Inflation, Joe Biden, mainstream media, products, rationing, scarcity, shortage, supply chain



This article may contain statements that reflect the opinion of the author


(Natural News) It is becoming increasingly difficult to find baby formula in the United States. And yet almost nothing is being said about it by the media because it makes Joe Biden look bad.



As you may recall, Hunter’s dad promised to fix everything supposedly caused by his predecessor, including the ever-present broken supply chains. Ever since Biden took office, however, everything has gotten worse.



Last fall, Biden’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) received a warning from a whistleblower about contamination issues at the Abbott Nutrition baby formula factory in Michigan. The regime had months to act but chose to do nothing instead.



“The FDA reacted far too slowly to report this,” said Rep. Rose DeLauro, a Democrat from Connecticut and a “reliably liberal ally,” according to reports. Even DeLauro can see that Biden dropped the ball on this one.



DeLauro wrote a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) inspector general demanding an immediate investigation into the contamination incident, which has left many exposed babies sick and dying.



In this case, baby formula is in short supply not because of a lack of ingredients, but rather because the stuff appears to have been poisoned, even if unintentionally.

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Is this the ultimate reason for the "shortage?"  We know "The Big Guy" takes a cut of everything he can, which might be why his FDA closed down a major formula producer, and notice that Bill Gates-of-Hell is involved in this venture as well.  Of course, it's all for "the good of the environement!" 



Lab-grown 'human milk' may be just three years away

By Milly Chan, CNN Business


BIOMILQ, a North Carolina-based startup, is working to create "human milk" outside of the body.

(CNN Business)Breast milk is the perfect food for babies but not all mothers are able to breastfeed, and with adoption or surrogacy, parents don't have the option.



Enter: BIOMILQ. The North Carolina-based startup is working to create "human milk" outside of the body.

From burgers to breasts

The idea first came to co-founder and chief science officer Leila Strickland in 2013, after she heard about the world's first lab-grown burger. A cell biologist by training, Strickland wondered if similar technology could be used to culture human milk-producing cells, she tells CNN Business.

Strickland had struggled to produce enough breast milk for her first child. "A lot of women are grappling with this," she says.

Globally, only one in three babies receives as much breast milk in their first six months as experts recommend, says the World Health Organization. Instead, many parents rely on formula. The milk formula industry was worth over $52 billion in 2021, according to market research provider Euromonitor International.

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The states hit hardest by the baby formula shortage revealed: More than 50% of product is out of stock at stores in Tennessee, Texas and Biden's home state Delaware - while 43% is missing from shelves nationwide and infants go hungry


New data reveals the scale of the baby formula shortage hitting the United States, where 98 percent of the product is domestically made

Tennessee is the hardest-hit state, followed by Delaware and Texas, while Colorado, New Mexico and Indiana are the least affected

The shortage is due to pandemic supply chain issues coupled with a February halt on production at one of the largest factories, in Michigan, following a hygiene scare

Joe Biden on Thursday met with executives from several producers plus leaders of Target and Walmart to address the shortages, and is looking at ways of bringing in imports from Mexico, Chile and the Netherlands

Frustrated parents, meanwhile, are resorting to driving around their states scouring stores and begging on online forums for help


By HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM



PUBLISHED: 21:36 EDT, 12 May 2022 | UPDATED: 22:44 EDT, 12 May 2022




Parents in Tennessee are the hardest-hit by the baby formula shortage, new data obtained by DailyMail.com shows - with those in Joe Biden's home state of Delaware coming a close second.



The scale of the crisis is revealed in the new analysis, which shows that only 43.08 percent of the usual national supply of baby formula is available.



In Tennessee, 54.71 percent of the state's usual supply is out of stock; in Delaware the figure is 54.51 percent, and in Texas it is 52.01 percent.





The data, from the first week in May, was obtained from Datasembly, which collects real-time data from 11,000 grocery stores nationwide, and calculates the shortages per state.



The situation now is likely to be significantly worse, as parents panic-buy supplies and yet more stores run out of the products.



Montana and Nevada were also hard-hit by the crisis.



On the other end of the scale, Colorado was reporting the fewest problems, with 26.36 percent of the usual supply being out of stock.



New Mexico and Indiana were the only other states to have supply outages at less than 30 percent.



The problem began earlier this year, when a Michigan-based factory was found to have flouted Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hygiene procedures, and four babies were hospitalized after eating contaminated formula, with one dying.



A spokesman for Abbott, which produces formula at the plant, denied that the bacteria had come from their factory.



'After a thorough review of all available data, there is no evidence to link our formulas to these infant illnesses,' the spokesman told DailyMail.com on Wednesday.



Yet the factory remains shut, and the strongly-monopolistic industry - already struggling with supply chain issues as a result of the pandemic - has been unable to compensate.



Full story at the link