FDA Commissioner: Infant Formula Shortages Could Begin to Ease ‘Within Days’

Dr. Robert Califf gathers his documents as the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pension adjourn a hearing on the nomination of Califf to be commissioner of Food and Drug Administration on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Dec. 14, 2021. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP Photo

The head of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told a House committee that baby formula shortages will start to ease in the coming days.

FDA Commissioner Robert Califf told the panel that the shortage would improve “within days,” adding that “we have sold—we have had more infant formula bought by between 11 and 19 percent than what was bought in the month” before an Abbott Laboratories factory was shut down in Sturgis, Michigan.