The 1950 Defense Production Act is being invoked by President Joe Biden to make companies produce baby formula ingredients as part of a raft of new measures to alleviate the ongoing national baby formula shortage.
The lot number on a donated can of baby formula is against a list of recalled cans.
During the Korean War, the president was able to require companies to enter into contracts to produce materials considered necessary for national defense.
The president can prohibit profiteering from certain materials.
The White House said that Biden will use the PDA to order businesses to increase production of baby formula ingredients and to direct those ingredients to formula manufacturers in order to accelerate the return of formula to store shelves.
The White House announced that Biden ordered federal agencies to use Department of Defense commercial aircraft to fetch baby formula that meets U.S. standards from overseas.
The announcement came two days after Abbott Laboratories, the formula manufacturer whose voluntary product recall in February helped cause the nationwide shortage, laid out a plan to reopen a key formula plant and ease the shortage within as little as eight weeks.
Abbott struck a deal with the FDA to reopen the baby formula plant.
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