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Be one more supply chain problem. beer taps running dry. not yet, but -- >> if there's going to be a beer shortage, it's going to be a problem. >> reporter: the problem is to get those bubbles requires co2. much of the nation's carbon dioxide used in beer is shipped from mississippi, where they encountered a recent contamination issue, causing shortages, and then a train line strike in the midwest resulted in co2 delivery problems. >> a dozen or more breweries that are experiencing the same problem. and those are just the ones that i know of. it was as if a switch went off overnight. >> report...

Contamination issue here. the other concern was there were four babies who had been consuming formula that was produced here, for babies who end up having bacterial infections and had to be hospitalized. two of them died, possibly in connection with those infections according to the fda. but we do want to stress that abbott has said that they found no connection between the infections and the illnesses and their formula. so, this has been an ongoing process and there's still more to be done here, certainly. >> jesse, thanks for reporting. we appreciate. it jesse coaches live and sturgis, michi...

Production of his baby formula amid a nationwide shortage. the factory closed earlier this year because of a contamination issue after an fda infection found samples of bacteria, prompting a massive recall of the company's products. now, this reopening will bring relief to a lot of parents across the country who are struggling to feed their infants because abbott nutrition is said to control roughly 48% of the baby formula market. and it's planted sturgis's its biggest. joining me now is nbc's jesse kirsch, who is live in sturgis, michigan outside the abbott nutrition plant. jesse, first of, a...

Earlier this morning president biden passed the access to formula baby formula act of 2022. it is going to expand access to baby format for certain families during this nationwide sorted shortage, after congress passed the legislation earlier this week. this is in addition to the white house announcing operation fly formula, which is a program that will use u.s. military aircraft to import formula from other nations. air shipments containing the equivalent of one and a half million eight health bottles of formulas are set to be shipped from europe to indiana. from there the formula will be dis...

In many countries they don't have the infrastructure to cope with the amount of ppe that has been produced so some of it has actually been going into landfill, which is obviously a contamination issue. so, yeah, thatis contamination issue. so, yeah, that is what we're doing with ppe at the moment. in the uk a lot of the pp been disposed of by incineration but in some other countries unfortunately it is not sufficient for that. on the one hand you've got all this ppe being destroyed and you have got in some countries there is not a sufficient amount of ppe so what is it that you are proposing? ...