House Democratic leaders announced their legislative response to the baby food shortage, featuring a $28 million funding package for the Food and Drug Administration, reports Axios. "That's in response to the FDA's shutdown of an Abbott Nutrition plant in Michigan over evidence of a food-borne pathogen."
Sending the FDA more taxpayer money would be a ridiculous reward for another dangerous FDA blunder. If anything needed to be shut down, maybe it was the FDA.
There is no evidence that Abbott or its baby food had anything to do with the 4 infant cases of Cronobacter sakazakii (a common bacteria that could be picked up anywhere).
"In shutting down the Abbott plant, the FDA was acting from a zero-risk mentality in its own bailiwick—protecting infant formula from factory contamination—with zero regard for costs and risks that would be somebody else’s problem. These include a nightmare for parents and a risk of malnutrition for thousands of newborns, particularly those in need of doctor-prescribed formulas that only the Michigan factory produced."