Biden’s FDA Placed Under Investigation as Baby Formula Crisis Rages
With a documented five-month gap between the first findings of contamination at a major infant formula plant and the Food and Drug Administration’s action to close the plant, the FDA is now under the microscope itself…
With a documented five-month gap between the first findings of contamination at a major infant formula plant and the Food and Drug Administration’s action to close the plant, the FDA is now under the microscope itself to determine what went wrong.
The Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General is beginning an audit of the actions that began with a September 2021 report of contamination and ended with a massive February recall of infant formula.
Abbott Nutrition’s plant in Sturgis, Michigan, was shut down in February, three months before any federal action was taken to address what has become a national shortage of formula.
The audit will determine whether the FDA upheld its duty “to safeguard the nation’s Food supply, including infant formula and ensure all ingredients are safe,” according to ABC.
The audit will also determine whether FDA regulators went about their jobs properly once contamination was discovered.
In September 2021, an FDA report said that the Sturgis plant “did not maintain a building used in the manufacture, processing, packing or holding of infant formula in a clean and sanitary condition.”