I remember when I was young there was some sort of scandal about a brand of baby formula being inadequate and maybe causing some brain damage. I don’t know exactly what came of that. Maybe the FDA hyper controls the baby formula allowed to be sold in the US because of the history, or maybe they have friends in the baby formula US companies or could be another reason.
Two things are happening, Abbott had to shut down, and now people are panicked (understandable) so they are hoarding when they can, creating more shortage on the shelves. Just a few days ago someone posted on social media that one of the grocery stores near me has shelves stocked with baby formula. I bet within a few hours it was all gone. No surprise that baby formula usually sells very slowly where I live, there aren’t a lot of babies here.
I wonder if lactating mothers are helping by pumping milk for other babies. Would you feel comfortable giving that milk to your baby?
@Jeruba There probably are good recipes, but maybe a lot of bad ones? With formula they worry about appropriate nutrition obviously, and I don’t know what else, but there must be reasonable recipes, even if it is just to stretch some packaged formula temporarily.
@ALL Edit: The government should make it illegal to make a profit on reselling baby formula right now. There are probably people hoarding and selling for a fortune on amazon.