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When you have too few producers of a product and there's a major reduction, it creates a resiliency issue. we can still have a pretty competitive situation in going forward. and those that are currently in the business potentially expanding. we'll take a look at the way that we do business through the wic program to make sure we have the flebs incumbents in place so we're not faced with this kind of disruption in the future. >> are we going to open up to more imports? a lot of moms prefer what they can get from overseas because the health standards are in some ways higher and different oversea...

Wouldn't want in your own food, let alone your baby's. and we're the first new entrant that clinically proved our benefits in a major clinical study. they will be published in a medical journal and really demonstrating some of those benefits. we saw in the clinical let spit up, less gas, softer stool than another formula and now we're hearing that from testimonials and parents themselves with this overwhelming response to the well tolerated nature. >> let's talk about the million dollar question for parents out there struggling. inflation is really bad, they're having a hard time finding formu...

>> there is criticism that it took too long for the administration to act and for congress to act, but we are in this situation. a lot of people think and say openly, this is completely unacceptable. did the white house and did the government take too long to act? >> well, mika, the fda began acting as soon as they knew that the plant was going to shut down. in fact, they started working on a couple things. one, increasing the manufacturing, working in partnership with companies, but also working with states to ensure that people what depend on the wic program to get their baby formula, that t...

Formula shortage. the two kids, both in tennessee, were admitted because the families could not find the specific formula they needed. one has since been discharged. first lady jill biden is addressing the crisis in a new psa she and the surgeon general said the biden administration is pushing to get more formula on the shelves. and the house is moving closer to a vote on an emergency spending bill to help increase supply. but how soon will be the shelves be restocked? nbc correspondent ali vitali joins me now, ali, how soon will the shelves get restocked? does congress have an answer? >> re...

Program. we should be giving parents and mothers the ability to buy any type of form lamp the restrictions on formula are prudent and worked with the retailers to do it and it helps avoid hort buying and also a really unfortunate tendency of people to buy and then try to sell at exorbitant prices online. >> i'm going ask you for short answers on these because we're tight on time but people need the answers. you said it will take a time for the imports. give me a time frame on that, if you could, weeks, months, a year? >> i'm going to let to the fda speak to the specific timing because these ar...