The shortage began during the COVID-19 pandemic, experts say, when companies started to face supply-chain issues, including procuring the necessary ingredients, packaging hang-ups and labor shortages.
It only got worse in February, when Abbott Labs first announced a recall of certain Alimentum, Similac and EleCare formulas after five infants who used the formula contracted a Cronobacter sakazakii infection, which can cause severe blood infections and meningitis. One of the infants died as a result.
Among the hardest-hit areas, according to Datasembly, were Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas - where the out-of-stock rate in the capital of San Antonio was 56 percent.
Nationwide retailers like CVS and Walgreens are now rationing supplies to just three baby formula products per customer per purchase. At Target.com, customers can only get up to four baby formula products at a time, which has left parents scrambling to obtain enough; some three-quarters of babies in the U.S. are on some kind of formula for the first six months of their lives.
Kassidi Hillard, the mother of a 2-month-old who needs Similac Pro-Advance, told WDRB she has "looked at every store in Indiana and here (in Kentucky) and haven't found her formula at not one store." "It's kind of stressful, 'cause if you can't find formula, it's like they can't eat nothing else," Hillard said. "They can't have baby food, they can't have hard food, they can't have what we eat so it's really, it's not an easy thing to go through." Sources include: DailyMail.co.uk NaturalNews.comBy Lance D Johnson // Share
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