WASHINGTON: It’s a nightmare for parents. The United States is in the grip of a severe shortage of baby formula — with a mass product recall aggravating pandemic supply chain woes — sending families on sometimes desperate hunts for the vital supplies.
And it has been going on for months, according to Sara Khan, the mother of three children aged 10, seven and six months.
“I’ve known about this issue for almost seven months,” she told AFP. “This did not happen overnight.”
Khan described the struggle to find just a few bottles of formula, and the distress at being faced with empty shelves at…