U.S. baby formula supply is still vulnerable, former FDA official tells lawmakers [CNBC]

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that left parents scrambling to feed their children, a former Food and Drug Administration official told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday. “It is my view that the state of the infant formula industry today is not much different than it was then,” Frank Yiannas, the agency's former deputy commissioner for food policy, said during testimony before a subcommittee of the House Oversight Committee. Yiannas helped lead the FDA's response to the shortage before resigning earlier this year. “In other words, the nation remains one outbreak, tornado, flood, or cyber-attack away from finding itself in a similar place to that of February 17, 2022,” he added. The FDA announced a nationwide recall that day of Abbott Nutrition 's popular Similac, Alimentum and EleCare baby formulas that sparked the nationwide shortage. The infant formula was recalled after several infants became sick with bacterial infections and two died. He said the agency was slow to act when those concerns about contamination a
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