Congressman Issa Issues Statement on Infant Formula Crisis

WASHINGTON D.C. - Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-50) issued the following statement today regarding the current infant formula supply shortage.

“Of the Biden Administration’s many failures, none is more in need of attention today than the nation’s current and life-threatening shortage of infant formula.
 
“Each day, this crisis grows worse. And more mothers grow fearful of how they will provide the next meal to their children.
 
“I call on this White House to immediately convene an Infant Formula Emergency Meeting with all relevant federal regulators, state leaders, formula manufacturers, and supply chain stakeholders to develop immediate solutions and eliminate a formula shortfall that threatens the most vulnerable in our society.
 
“This will require immediate steps to increase domestic formula production and, if needed, speed approved shipments from overseas. Federal officials must be convened with their state and local counterparts. And they must remove any barrier or bottleneck that slows or delays shipments to parents and their children.
 
“If we require escorts of delivery trucks from plants to stores, let it be done. If the FDA requires a 24-hour work schedule to clear regulatory hurdles to restarting production, let it be done as well.
 
“Our families cannot wait any longer.”

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Darrell Issa is the Representative of California’s 50th Congressional District. The District encompasses the central and northeastern parts of San Diego County and a portion of Riverside County, including the communities of Fallbrook, San Marcos, Valley Center, Ramona, Escondido, Santee, Lakeside, El Cajon, Temecula, and the mountain and desert areas of the San Diego-Imperial County line. Issa served as the Chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform from 2011-2015.