US President Joe Biden has invoked the Defense Production Act to address an infant formula shortage that has caused panic among millions of parents and caregivers who rely on formula. And the US news site Axios, citing the White House, explained that the entry into force of this law will require “suppliers to send the necessary resources to manufacturers of infant formula before any other buyer requests them.”

Biden also directed several government agencies to use Department of Defense commercial aircraft to transport baby food from overseas to the United States. “Importing infant formula will serve as a bridge to this mass production, so I ask that you take all necessary steps to bring additional safe infant formula into the country immediately,” Biden wrote in a letter to health ministers. and social services and the Minister of Agriculture.

Biden has vowed to ease the bureaucratic procedures that govern the supply of formula to stores, increase imports and take action against profiteers who resell baby food online at prices many times higher than retail prices.