American flags in Washington. File photoWASHINGTON, May 22. Military transport aviation has begun emergency importation of scarce infant formula to the United States from Europe, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said. The first plane to have already taken off from the airbase Ramstein in Germany will deliver 35,000 tons of baby food to Indianapolis on Sunday. more than half a million bottles… Normally, the process of transporting such products from Europe to the United States takes two weeks, but thanks to the Flying Formula operation, we have reduced the time to approximately three days,» Jean-Pierre told reporters. The shortage of infant formula, which is estimated at 40-50 percent of what the US market needs, arose after regulators shut down Abbott's production line, suspecting it was contaminated with pathogens. bacteria. White House economic adviser Brian Deese said Abbott plans to resume production in about a month. He added that the baby food market is 90 percent controlled by three companies and promised to de-monopolize it. formula milk deficiency
