Headline RoundupMay 23rd, 2022

‘Operation Fly Formula’ Begins Shipping Baby Formula From Europe to US

Summary from the AllSides News Team

A shipment of 78,000 pounds of baby formula arrived in Indianapolis, Indiana on Sunday — the first delivery from “Operation Fly Formula,” the Biden administration’s attempt to curtail the formula shortage

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters on Sunday that the shipment, which arrived on a military plane from Germany, contained “very specific and specialized formula” for “moms and dads who have children who have allergies where the regular formula just simply will not work.” White House officials told CNN (Left bias) that the first formula shipments would go to hospitals, doctors, home health care facilities and pharmacies in regions “where the needs are most acute.”

Discussing the shipment with CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday, National Economic Council director Brian Deese called for “more competition” in the formula market, “so that no individual company has this much control over supply chains.”

Coverage was widespread and mostly balanced across the spectrum. Some coverage from the right, like in Washington Examiner (Lean Right bias), framed the story around the first shipments not going to stores. 

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