A military plane carrying enough specialty infant formula for more than half a million baby bottles arrived Sunday in Indianapolis.
aimed at relieving a shortage that has sent parents scrambling to find enough to feed their children.for the effort, dubbed “Operation Fly Formula,” because no commercial flights were available.
Longer term, he said, the US needs more formula providers “so that no individual company has this much control over supply chains.” The 132 pallets of Nestle Health Science Alfamino Infant and Alfamino Junior formula arrived from Ramstein Air Base in Germany.Nestle said that over the past few months it has worked “around the clock” to address the formula shortage and help meet demand.
Under “Operation Fly Formula,” the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Health and Human Services are authorized to request Department of Defense support to pick up overseas infant formula that meets US health and safety standards, so it can get to store shelves faster, according to the USDA.
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