Feds to probe FDA’s inspection of baby
formula lab that was forced to close
New York Post,
by
Mark Moore
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
6/2/2022 7:20:50 PM
The federal government will review whether the Food and Drug Administration properly inspected the Abbott Laboratories baby formula plant in Michigan whose closure over unsanitary conditions caused a nationwide shortage that left the Biden administration unprepared. The Department of Health and Human Services inspector general’s office will conduct the review that is expected to conclude sometime next year, the agency said in a statement Thursday. “We will review FDA’s actions leading up to the infant formula recall at the Abbott facility in February 2022 to determine whether FDA followed applicable policies and procedures to: (1) conduct inspections of the manufacturing facility and (2) oversee Abbott’s initiation of the infant
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Quigley 6/2/2022 7:34:49 PM (No. 1174157)
And oh yeah, huncher wasn’t paid his consulting fees so the big guy wasn’t able to get around to - or find the time for (what with his busy schedule of nato imperialism, Ukraine aid to fund the payola, and bringing in “relentless waves” of illegal immigrants to vote the ways Americans won’t, and making harry potter magic energy wands) - putting the seal on the license to make bay formula.
As Shitff paraphrased it, “nice little baby formula plant there, be a shame if it didn’t get a license to produce baby formula; of course we’ll grant an exception for supplies going to the border.”
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 6/2/2022 7:41:01 PM (No. 1174162)
The foxes investigate the other foxes. Just like Mueller and Barr investigated.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
paral04 6/2/2022 8:12:47 PM (No. 1174181)
What kind of filthy hell hole is that plant that makes baby formula that justifies it being closed for 4 months?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
chumley 6/2/2022 8:20:23 PM (No. 1174187)
Someone decided not to bribe their inspector maybe?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 6/2/2022 8:21:00 PM (No. 1174188)
A committee will form a group that will hire a consulting firm, that will hire an expert, that will hire some flunkies with worthless degrees to ask questions that don't matter of people who don't care. In the end, lots of paper will be generated and passed back and forth between the overpaid paper hacks. It will all go into a warehouse in some place no one has ever heard of. $50 million will go to chosen fascists and everything they set out to accomplish will be accomplished - exactly zero.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mizzmac 6/2/2022 8:22:51 PM (No. 1174192)
Oh, the Feds investigating the Feds. That'll be productive. And expensive. And 100% exonerating.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
lakerman1 6/2/2022 8:38:21 PM (No. 1174212)
These are the facts as I understand them.
Two babies became ill and died, and two more became ill but survived. A particular bacterium existed in all four babies, and all four babies were on Abbott formula.
The federal inspectors went to Abbott, but did not find the bacterium in secure processing areas, but found it in external, non secure areas of the plant. So the FDA shut down the entire plant.
It is much more likely that the four babies formula bottles were contaminated by their caregivers in preparing the bottles.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Scout Finch 6/2/2022 8:40:12 PM (No. 1174214)
100% OP
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
jasmine 6/2/2022 8:40:55 PM (No. 1174216)
"We will determine whether FDA followed the inspections and recall process for infant formula in accordance with Federal requirements. Specifically, we will review FDA's actions leading up to the infant formula recall at the Abbott facility in February 2022 to determine whether FDA followed applicable policies and procedures to: (1) conduct inspections of the manufacturing facility and (2) oversee Abbott's initiation of the infant formula recall."
All well and good. But why would a review of FDA's actions to determine whether or not applicable policies and procedures were followed spill into next year? Surely the FDA carefully documented the findings of the inspections it conducted, and gave copies of those documents to Abbott management. And surely Abbott initiated the recall as required by the FDA. If the FDA doesn't already know what happened and how the four month shut down came about, shouldn't the IG and everyone else be worried about making sure the failure(s) are promptly identified and corrected?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Corndoggies 6/2/2022 8:54:27 PM (No. 1174224)
Inspectors are just people. Some are normal and some misuse their power. If I had to guess…..I noticed no names are being named.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
SkeezerMcGee 6/2/2022 9:16:19 PM (No. 1174236)
I read news articles a few weeks ago that reported:
1. The recall was Abbott's unilateral decision, and was not mandated by the FDA.
2. The recall was limited to a few (2?) product runs and had minisule, if any, affect on the shortage.
3. The plant was not shut down until some weeks after Abbott's recall, and was based on general unsanitary conditions at the plant that had nothing to do with any issues regarding the baby formulas.
4. The FDA concluded that the problems experienced by the four babies was not caused by any Abbott formula.
The relevant question are: Was the FDA's decision to shut down the plant too extreme? Why not let Abbott correct the alleged unsanitary conditions without shutting the plant down?
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Since Biden shipped pallets of the formula down to the southern border, and probably the same amount to Ukraine, the closure was the cover story so Biden could empty out the warehouses without anyone being the wiser. If the public thinks the Feds are going to be honest about this, they have another thing coming.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 6/2/2022 10:46:43 PM (No. 1174353)
The official goobernment coverup has been formally announced. Babies will still starve but the FDA will be given an award wen its all over.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 6/3/2022 1:05:51 AM (No. 1174414)
Whitewash. FDA is corrupted, probably was fishing for bribes.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 6/3/2022 1:27:26 AM (No. 1174429)
It was then that he realized he ha f…. up!
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 6/3/2022 9:17:54 AM (No. 1174650)
Why should I believe this story from the government when the same administration lied about arming the Taliban in Afghanistan then murder workers with a drone to cover it up? I'm not buying it at all this is a government created hoax with the intent to harm babies and parents this fraud administration hates the American people plain and simple. FFDA
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