BS. It's a huge story but some want it hidden because of where some (not all) of the blame points at.
The FDA started investigating the issue last Fall. They shut down the plant in Feb and only now will allow a limited restart, announced 2 days ago after Congress started complaining. Despite learning a month ago that none of the bacterial strains that started the shutdown can be linked to the plant.
And the FDA had been way behind on much of their inspection efforts across the board because of Covid excuses. Buy some damn KN-95 masks and do your job.
Further exacerbated by Fed restrictions on importing baby formula, expanded over multiple administrations, despite many of those countries meeting or exceeding fed safety standards. Why not use an executive order to declare an emergency and temporarily waive some restrictions? Or quickly get Congress to pass a measure if that is required? Instead the House has scheduled a hearing 2 weeks from now. Too busy with important matters like next week's UFO hearings.
Too much concentration of supply from just a few plants. Some specialty formulas only produced in this plant. Why the hell hasn't the feds treated medical and critical supplies sourcing as a national security issue? It's not inconceivable that Russian or Iranian or any other terrorist assets could sabotage such a facility. We've only had 21 years of warning to look into such matters, and in fact did create such working groups, but the follow through hasn't been there.
While not a major cause of the shortages, it doesn't help that with such known supply disruption issues, the feds have being buying up batches of formula to deal with the huge, and likely record, influx of illegal aliens (possibly 6 million this year.) I dunno, maybe take a pause and enforce the border a bit for a few months until we catch up with some of the supply shortages across the spectrum?