Severe weather has forced Abbott Nutrition to pause production at a Michigan baby formula factory that had just restarted after being closed for several months, contributing to a national shortage.

But Abbott has said that, after production resumes, it could take about two months before new formula begins arriving in stores. The company's factory has been closed due to contamination problems.

Federal officials have said the Abbott factory is the only source of many of those products, providing nourishment to about 5,000 U.S. babies, according to federal officials.

The factory at the center of the baby formula shortage will resume production Saturday, ... Abbott says one of its specialty formulas, EleCare, could be available again around June 20.

The Abbott factory is the only source of many of those products. The FDA has faced intense criticism for taking months to close the plant and then negotiate its reopening.

"You probe your factory for where pathogens could be lurking, and then adopt critical controls to eradicate them. The Abbott manufacturing facility in Sturgis, Mich., May 13, 2022. Jeff Kowalsky ...

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration took 15 months to act on a whistleblower complaint about the Abbott Nutrition factory at the center 2022's nationwide infant formula shortage. That's ...

Abbott closed the factory after the Food and Drug Administration began investigating four bacterial infections among infants who consumed powdered formula from the plant.

Nobody was prepared for what would happen nearly a decade later. In early 2022, after several infants fell ill and regulators found unsanitary conditions at an Abbott factory in Sturgis, Mich ...