- Title: Baby formula shortage could ease as Abbott reopens Michigan plant
- Date: 4th June 2022
- Summary: STURGIS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES (FILE - MAY 20, 2022) (REUTERS) ABBOTT SIGN OUTSIDE MANUFACTURING PLANT VARIOUS EXTERIOR SHOTS OF ABBOTT PLANT VARIOUS OF ABBOTT FACTORY WITH SIGN ON TOP STURGIS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES (FILE - MAY 20, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) (MUTE) VARIOUS DRONE SHOTS OF ABBOTT MANUFACTURING PLANT STURGIS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES (FILE - MAY 20, 2022) (REUTERS) ABBOTT SIGN IN FRONT OF BUILDING VARIOUS OF ABBOTT MANUFACTURING PLANT / PEOPLE WORKING SIGN ON ABBOTT GROUNDS VARIOUS OF ABBOTT PLANT CARS DRIVING ON ROAD WITH ABBOTT SIGN BEHIND CARS DRIVING PAST ABBOTT MANUFACTURING PLANT STURGIS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES (FILE - MAY 20, 2022) (REUTERS) (MUTE) (MUTE) DRONE SHOT OF ABBOTT MANUFACTURING PLANT
- Embargoed: 18th June 2022 17:36
- Keywords: Abbott Abbott Laboratories Defense Production Act EleCare FDA Michigan Similac Sturgis baby formula manufacturing plant
- Location: STURGIS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES
- City: STURGIS, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES
- Country: USA
- Topics: Health/Medicine,United States
- Reuters ID: LVA001271904062022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Abbott Laboratories ABT.N said on Saturday (June 4) that it has reopened its baby formula production plant in Sturgis, Michigan, taking a step toward alleviating an acute nationwide shortage that has sent parents scrambling for supplies.
The company said it will begin production of EleCare and other specialty and metabolic formulas, with initial EleCare product release to consumers beginning on or about June 20.
The FDA said on May 19 that the plant was on track to open within one or two weeks.
The plant shutdown and a recall of infant formula had deepened a supply shortage in a nation where, according to federal data from 2020, less than half of babies were exclusively breast-fed through their first three months.
Abbott started a recall in February after reports of bacterial infections in children who had consumed the formula made at the plant.
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