Infant health suffered during baby formula shortage

https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/news/infant-health-suffered-during-baby-formula-shortage

by geox • 2 years ago

18 4 2 years ago

gmane• 2 years ago

I feel this, during the shortage, we had an otherwise healthy baby but were advised to go on formula for a week to test for something. The process of finding formula and discovering that the formula we had was unsafe and was recalled was a nightmare. All the shelves were empty. I can only imagine how hard it was for people who couldn't "just" go back to breast milk.

twisteriffic• 2 years ago

Having Costco jack the price of their house brand up 3x and then discontinue it was a real fun time.

loco5niner• 2 years ago

My local Costco's did not jack the price up.

vikramkr• 2 years ago

Good Lord how the hell was this study published? Given the obvious conflicts of interest, selection bias inhering to using a baby formula company listserv, and the lack of any sort of rigor in the methodology in the main paper, I was hoping to find some salvation in the supplemental methods. Survey details:

"You are being asked to complete this survey because you meet all six conditions "

...

"5)you experienced challenges with feeding your baby because of the infant formula shortage in May 2022"

Somehow the idea that 80+ percent of respondents switched formula is less shocking in that context huh. Also half these study questions seem like a well designed market research survey for Bobbie.

At least it looks like they didn't waste taxpayer money on this

Infant health suffered during baby formula shortage

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