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Australia will ship more than 1.25 million cans of baby formula to the United States to help it nationwide shortage.

Australia is sending the equivalent of more than 27 million 8-ounce bottles of goat's milk and other baby formulas, as the U.S. government works to replenish store shelves during the shortage.

‘My expectation is that within two months we should be beyond normal and with a plethora’

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FDA officials appeared before a congressional panel to answer questions about the crisis after Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) recalled some baby formula products and closed its manufacturing plant in Sturgis, Michigan. 

WASHINGTON — Sluggish response and questionable decisions by the Food and Drug Administration exacerbated the nation's infant formula shortage, agency officials told lawmakers at a congressional hearing on Wednesday.

FDA leadership didn’t ‘receive direct copies of the complaint due to an isolated failure in FDA’s mail room, likely due to COVID-19 staffing issues’

Jill Biden and the U.S. surgeon general are empathizing with parents across the country who have been scrambling to find infant formula for their children

The FDA is easing regulations to allow infant formula imports from Britain, bringing around 2 million cans onto empty shelves by June to ease a nationwide shortage, Reuters reported. The FDA said it was "exercising enforcement discretion" to allow Britain-based Kendal Nutricare to import certain infant formula products under the Kendamil…

Millions more cans of baby formula will be available in the U.S. in the coming months, the nation’s Food and Drug Administration said, detailing steps it’s taken to alleviate a shortage that has left families scrambling to figure out how to feed their babies.

Danone SA (OTC: DANOY) has been doubling shipments to the U.S. of Neocate formula for infants allergic to cow's milk, while Enfamil maker Reckitt is also working to boost supplies amid a nationwide shortage, company executives said.