In a report issued Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration acknowledged numerous shortcomings in its response to the infant formula shortage earlier this year.
The agency also had poor insight into the supply chains and manufacturing procedures for infant formula.
By then, four infants were ill and two had died. The FDA is still investigating whether there is a connection between those infants and the formula, the“Whistleblower complaints come into the agency in many different ways, from many different sources,” Dr. Steven Solomon, director of the Center for Veterinary Medicine and the person who oversaw the review, told the.
Shipping issues experienced by “third party delivery companies” further caused delays in testing bacterial samples and the agency struggled with its testing capacity for the rare but potentially deadlyStill more issues were caused by the pandemic, both when the agency missed inspections after removing inspectors from the field and also because of COVID cases among agency staff, the report said.
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