The scale of the crisis is revealed in the new analysis, which reveals that just 43 percent of the usual national supply of baby formula is available.
In Tennessee, 54 percent of the state’s usual supply is out of stock, in Delaware, the figure is 54 percent, and in Texas, it is 52 percent.
Montana and Nevada were also hard-hit by the crisis.
On the other end of the scale, Colorado was reporting the fewest problems, with 26 percent of the normal supply being out of stock.
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New Mexico and Indiana were the only other states to have supply issues at less than 30 percent.
The data, captured throughout the first week in May, was obtained from Datasembly, which collects real-time data from 11,000 grocery stores all across the nation to calculate the shortages per state.
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The situation this week is likely to be significantly worse as parents panic-buy supplies and yet more stores run out.
The problem started earlier this year, when a Michigan-based factory was discovered to have flouted Food and Drug Administration (FDA) hygiene procedures, and four babies were hospitalized after eating contaminated formula, with one dying.
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A spokesman for Abbott, which produces formula at the plant, denied that the bacteria had come from their factory.
“After a thorough review of all available data, there is no evidence to link our formulas to these infant illnesses,” the spokesman explained.
Yet the factory remains shut, and the heavily consolidated industry - already struggling with supply chain matters due to the pandemic - has been unable to compensate.
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One Tennessee mother, Wynter Balthrop, announced that she and her husband “went to six different stores and searched and called multiple others as far as three hours away from us — and we were not able to find one can or bottle of her formula.”
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Balthrop’s daughter Blakely, aged eight months, takes Enfamil’s Nutramigen formula - a hypoallergenic variety.
Nutramigen was and is the only formula that her baby can tolerate.
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She explained that when she was unable to find the specific formula, she gave her daughter a generic one, which made her sick, according to Fox News.
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“I broke down in the car,” she announced. “I was panicking and sad for my girl because we had enough formula left to make one bottle — and I knew we would have to use the generic formula that hurt her stomach again. And that broke my heart.”
“I mean, it just wasn’t fair to her. But we had no other options.”
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