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(77WABC) — French food giant Danone is to send the equivalent of about five million bottles of specialist infant formula to the U.S.
According to the Wall Street Journal, it’s part of a broader push to alleviate shortages of hypoallergenic formulas. Danone says about a half a million cans of specialized medical formula made by its Nutricia business will be flown into the U.S. in the coming weeks.
Danone said the formula will come from its factory in Liverpool, England. The factory produces the Neocate line of amino acid-based products used for babies allergic to cow’s milk and other proteins.
Baby formula has been in short supply for months partly because of supply-chain issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Product recalls and a production halt by Abbott Laboratories exacerbated the shortages.
