The Meals and Drug Administration on Tuesday took duty for this spring’s child system scarcity. Alas, no. As a substitute the company launched a report whitewashing its failures and imploring Congress for more cash.
Mother and father had been left to scavenge supermarkets for child system after the shutdown of an Abbott Laboratories plant in Michigan linked to 4 toddler diseases. The FDA blames “distinctive circumstances, requiring the company to handle a comparatively poorly understood pathogen.” However the micro organism Cronobacter that precipitated the diseases isn’t novel.