Over the weekend the nation’s largest manufacturer of baby formula announced it reached an agreement with the FDA to restart production. It’s a step in the right direction, but even with this announcement the formula shortage is expected to continue for weeks. News5 takes a look at the situation and how scammers are ramping-up the attacks while this lasts.
If you are someone who relies on baby formula right now, or knows a family who does, you know it has been a scramble with many parents having to rely on friends, food banks and doctor’s offices to find formula right now to feed their babies.
Abbott Nutrition leaders say they believe it will take about three weeks before their new formula starts arriving on store shelves to ease this shortage. Unfortunately that’s enough time for fraudsters to make one last push to rip-off desperate parents who aren’t careful.
”Who preys on a mother’s vulnerability like that at a time like this?,“ said Elizabeth Snyder, who has a family feeling the impacts of the baby formula shortage.
“With her drinking four or five bottles a day at 8 ounces, formula doesn’t last long anymore,” said Brooke Koslowski, sharing her frustration about the shortage and scammers who are trying to capitalize on the situation. “This is a serious issue, and you don’t do that to any parent, especially because some parents cannot breastfeed. Like I was not able to with her.”
Concerned families are sharing their frustrations from coast to coast, while…
