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Market that was contaminated. in your earlier comments you said there are only four major producers of infant formula in the united states. that, in and of itself, is a problem. so with contracting we should do away with it. because when abbott has 40 cent of the wic recipients, and thank god for richard nixon for making that summit we got a wic program. we need to address the underlying issue. so let me just talk about the fta, because in fact in september they look at the plant. there was suspicion. in october the whistleblower's report. they didn't do anything about it. in january they went...

Is about supplying baby formula to mothers. of all of the baby formula sold in the united states more than half purchased by mothers on wic assistance and because thisth ia federal seprogram, there are restrictions on the exact kinds of formula you can get. ifla you're lucky enough to fin formula on the shelves, but that is not a wic approved brand or size, you are out of luck. and so today, congress tried to fix that. the democratic controlled house ofat representatives has voted a bill appropriately named the access to baby formula act. which would knock down some of that red tape. to expand...

Be headed here in the coming days. >> that's important for the measures to be taken now. the point two you made in terms of the wic people, we're talking about over a million newborns, over a million babies are in the wic program as we speak. there was a memo that went out back on february 23rd from usda that offered wic agencies the opportunity to have waivers to allow parents to buy from other brands. wic actually restricts the access to a variety of formula types. you have to be confined to what your say it is doing and it is state by state. if that's the concern, and knowing that should be...

Including one with kind of a funny name. it's called wic. sounds like a candle wic. one of the problems identified at that big conference was a young poor mothers were struggling to come up with the money to feed not just themselves but their babies and wican was supposed to fix that,n 1964 thein first clinic opened kentucky and today it uses federal money to buy vouchers to buy fruit and vegetables and whole grain bread and baby formula for their little kids who can't eat solid food. for weeks now, not just wic moms but all moms have been scouring shelves for baby formula, due to a kind of a ...

Imports are coming in that there's information that will be understandable by consumers here in the u.s. is incredibly. the reality is that sometimes it takes a little while for those flexibilities to kick in. congress recently passed legislation that gives us a few more tools in terms of the wic program, for example, that about 50% of the formula used is funneled through the wic program. so creating flexibility within wic will ensure us to deal with interruptions in the future in a way that's timely. >> does there need to be more diversity in the market? almost all of the formula we see in th...