Bubs Australia to ship at least 1.25 million baby formula cans to United
States
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[May 28, 2022]
(Reuters) -Bubs Australia Ltd plans
to ship at least 1.25 million cans of its baby formula to the United
States to help ease a nationwide shortage, the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) said on Friday. |
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Empty shelves show a shortage of baby formula at a CVS store in San
Antonio, Texas, U.S. May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Kaylee Greenlee Beal/File
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Some of it is currently in stock for transport and more will be
produced by the Australian company in the coming weeks and
months, according to the FDA.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
allowed global farm commodities trader Cargill Inc to provide
raw materials needed to maximize the production of infant
formula by invoking the Defence Production Act.
Cargill supplies dozens of products to infant formula makers and
the move will allow the manufacturers to produce at full
capacity to address the "urgent marketplace shortages", the
department said in a statement.
The Biden administration had earlier decided to urgently meet
the nationwide shortage by importing emergency supplies from
Europe, the first of which arrived earlier this week.
Bubs' supply is another import allowed by the FDA as part of its
regulatory flexibility started earlier this month to mitigate
one of the biggest baby formula shortages in recent history.
The shortage is partly due to Abbott Laboratories' manufacturing
plant in Michigan recalling some products including Similac in
February.
Abbott said on Tuesday it plans to restart production at the
facility on June 4, adding it would prioritize making EleCare
and supplying it on or about June 20.
(Reporting by Leroy Leo and Ananya Mariam Rajesh in Bengaluru;
Editing by Shounak Dasgupta)
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