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DeLauro Whistles For Investigation Of US FDA Response To Whistleblower Report On Abbott Formula Facility

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Appropriations chairwoman Rosa DeLauro wants answers from HHS Office of Inspector General about FDA’s response to whistleblower report of contamination at Abbott Nutrition infant formula facility. Report described pattern of unsatisfactory quality control practices at the plant.

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House Appropriations Committee chairwoman Rosa DeLauro’s latest source for criticizing the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety oversight arrived in a whistleblower’s report highly and explicitly critical of Abbott Nutrition’s quality control practices at an infant formula facility.

The plant in Sturgis, MI, was shut down earlier in 2021 after Abbott Nutrition recalled powder products made there which...

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