U.S. FDA expands collaboration with Danone to boost baby formula supply By Reuters

(Reuters) – The U.S. Meals and Drug Administration mentioned on Thursday it has expanded its collaboration with Danone’s Nutricia enterprise to spice up provides of specialised medical child system bottles to handle its scarcity amongst infants with sure allergy symptoms or essential well being situations.

The well being regulator mentioned about 5 million further cans manufactured by Danone could be despatched to america.

In the meantime, lawmakers grilled the company officers on Wednesday over what they noticed as an absence of urgency of their response to complaints about potential child system contamination at a now shuttered Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:) plant that led to extreme nationwide shortages.

Abbott managed 40% of the market earlier than the plant closed, Christopher Calamari, president of Abbott U.S. diet, instructed lawmakers, and the plant accounted for 40% of Abbott’s product.