The chairwoman of the powerful House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform is demanding answers from the heads of the four largest baby formula producers in the United States on what their companies are doing to alleviate a formula shortage that has left parents scrambling to feed their children across the country.
In February, Abbott Nutrition issued a recall notice for formula made at the Sturgis, Michigan factory that produces more than any similar facility in the US and shut down production lines after regulators notified the company that four infants had been sickened — two of whom later passed away — after being fed formula made there that was contaminated by deadly bacteria.
