Relief landed in North Texas Thursday for parents looking for baby formula.
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra was on hand to welcome the shipment arriving from Germany, which is enough to fill more than 1.5 million eight-ounce bottles.This is the third shipment of baby formula to be shipped across the country with help from the federal government.Other shipments will follow in the coming weeks, which will go to retail chains. The charter flight from Cologne, Germany, landed Thursday with precious cargo.
"It means roughly 1,600,000 eight-ounce bottles of nutrition for their children, that’s what this is," Becerra said. The giant shipment of baby formula will go directly to the Nestle distribution warehouse in Fort Worth to be sold online. "This is an online-only shipment because of our desire to get to market fastest to cover all 50 states, but WIC programs are where we been playing special attention," said Molly Fogarty, with Nestle.Under Operation Fly Formula, HHS, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the General Services Administration, and the Department of Defense are partnering to pick up infant formula from other countries that meet U.S. health and safety standards, so it can get to store shelves faster.
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