Formula for a Shortage

What happened to the FDA? Why would they block a healthier option? This must be incompetence or corruption.

European formula is healthier than the dorito mix formula sold in the US. I was shocked to see that some have corn syrup and high oleic sunflower oils as the first ingredient. If I was a parent in the US I'd be looking for an underground formula railroad.

2 quotes from the article address that:

"The FDA does not exist to get products on the market. It exists to keep products off the market. They have no idea how to get a product to market; that’s just not what they do."

"So what they are doing, in an emergency, is allowing, out of the kindness of their hearts, for manufacturers to apply for the ability to temporarily import their products once the FDA explicitly approves them, on a case-by-case basis. When the problem was something completely irrelevant like listing ingredients in the wrong order, the FDA plans to (eventually) approve such an application, which will be good until November. If the issue is a trivial argument over something other than labeling, well, tough."

I highly recommend reading the whole article. It's a really well written "rant". (I say "rant" because you can hear the anger in the writing, but it is well researched and written regardless.)

What a funny story.

Most of it is completely disjointed from reality.

But please, keep pushing for the free market fallacy.

Lines such as: [the FDA only keeps stuff off shelves!] is quite naive at best. That’s _exactly_ what the FDA was and is for.

This reads like a first year business kid trying to sound involved.

> Lines such as: [the FDA only keeps stuff off shelves!] is quite naive at best. That’s _exactly_ what the FDA was and is for.

Which I'm quite certain was the author's point.

What's yours other than to mock the author?

I think this is an unpleasantly complicated topic because: 1) The FDA does have glacially slow processes, that limit competition in markets, often keeping prices artificially high (see the US Insulin market), but 2) The FDA has a pretty good track record of stopping companies killing or seriously harming people [1], and baby formula companies don't have a great record...[0][2]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_Nestl%C3%A9_boycott [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide - Its initial entry into the US market was prevented by Frances Kelsey, a reviewer at the FDA.[7] The birth defects caused by thalidomide led to the development of greater drug regulation and monitoring in many countries [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal