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<p>If you searched “<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-baby-formula-shortage">baby formula shortage</a>,” the top results assume you have <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-rages-over-illegal-infants-getting-fed-complains-america-babies-first">last year’s crisis</a> in mind.</p>
<p>“In 2022,” begins the suggested <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_United_States_infant_formula_shortage">Wikipedia page</a>, many <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/these-nine-republicans-hate-democrats-more-than-they-love-babies-or-freedom-or-democracy-or-anything-else">American families struggled</a> to buy enough formula because of a coincidence of <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-turbulent-tariff-policy-has-been-nirvana-for-k-street">federal import restrictions</a> and domestic production problems, the latter exacerbated by the fact that 90 percent of U.S.-made formula comes from <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/20/abbott-baby-formula-shareholder-profits">just four companies</a>.</p>
<p>But the formula shortage <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/15/baby-formula-tariffs-us-shortages/">isn’t <em>only</em></a> last year’s crisis. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/08/us-baby-formula-shortage-one-year-later">It’s still happening</a>—<a href="https://www.deseret.com/2023/2/21/23608561/baby-formula-shortage-may-not-be-as-over-as-you-think">not on the same</a> scale, thankfully, and not everywhere at once.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-in-the-world-is-the-baby-formula-crisis-still-going">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
