Less than two weeks after it reopened the largest baby formula factory in the US, Abbott Laboratories announced that severe thunderstorms and flooding caused by backed-up storm sewers in Sturgis, Michigan, had forced the operation to be shut down again.
Since the onset of the baby formula shortage, the FDA and Abbott Labs have covered up the full extent of illness and death in children who consumed products manufactured at the company’s factory in Sturgis, Michigan.
A whistleblower report about the unsanitary manufacturing conditions at Abbott Labs’ Sturgis facility was given to the company and the FDA one year before any action was taken to recall products from stores and shut down the facility.