want to stress is that we will bring an fda-compliant formula to the market in november and we are investing several million in england to double our capacity to continue to meet that demand and to continue to serve parents across the u.s. when parents see the shortage currently that so many families are dealing with across this country, i think there s just disbelief about how we got here and think, there were a series of things that got us here, but there is a sense that there need to be different formula companies in the u.s. and i know you re working to have your product sold here. can we talk about what the time line of that might look like and basically, i hear you saying that you anticipate your relationship with the u.s. will continue even beyond this crisis. that s certainly our hope, kristen. we ve been receiving terns of
the white house with five executives from formula companies. i spoke with one of them earlier today, she s christi carr with bubs australia. let s take a listen. really, this is a focus on everything in the industry, government and the farm la needs to get it to these american families during this crisis. it s about access. that is our soul focus for the systems to support american families during these difficult times. so while all of this is, of course, good, a couple of thoughts. one, lots of questions about why other countries are having to help the u.s. feed our own babies. lots of questions about how that happened and how do we prevent that from happening again and also lots of questions. this stuff gets shipped here. it s been a week since the
tried the chat functions for a number of the major formula companies, and this is what we found. for abbott, the 1-800 number listed on the website, this is the company behind those major recalls. when we tried that number, we didn t get any answers by phone. they told us they don t answer questions by phone at this moment in time. they can, though, however, take a faxed over form from a pediatrician along with a doctor s order that is sort of this urgent formula request form. unclear how long that would take if a parent were to go that route. when we tried the 1 -80 0 number for wrreck it, behind infa mill the whole time was 7 2 minutes. when we get a representative on the phone, they told us they have nothing in stock right now. finally, we tried gerber. this is another major formula company. some of the web and chat functions we were telling the representative we re looking for a certain line of formula that is similar to similac. we were told they were also out
let s go to the white house where peter doocy is reporting live from the north lawn. what is the president doing to address the baby formula shortage? the president hosted representatives of two other formula companies, gerber and another. they did not have anybody from abbott on the line. representatives of the company that has the factory shut down in michigan and insists that things are safe but still have not resumed operations yet. the president also talked to the leaders of two big box stores. the white house is telling us about that. the conversation with the ceos of wal-mart and target focused how retailers are working to stock shelves. at the discussed state-specific disparities and the president asked what more his team can do to get more product to communities in need. it sounds straight forward. what is getting confusing is trying to figure out when this white house really started worrying about this. was it months ago like jen
hhs.gov/formula. there s numbers for the formula companies. from what i could see again you won t find a secret stash but good information out there that might help answer some of your questions. probably not going to lead you directly to a stash of formula. abbott which makes similac. they have a finder where you put in the zip code and the brand you look for and tell you stores where it is available but i m sorry to say this but many parents have told us they put in the zip code and said it had formula and went to the store and it wasn t there. i don t think it s foolproof but a place to start. elizabeth cohen, thank you. coming up, the first of what could be thousands, thousands of war crimes trials is underway in ukraine.