President Biden admitted Wednesday he was not aware of how great an impact the Abbott plant shutdown in February would have on infant formula supplies until April. In a White House meeting with the country’s largest infant formula manufacturers yesterday, spokespersons from two manufacturers explicitly said they had recognized from the start how huge a problem the formula shortage would eventually become when Abbott closed one of its plants in February. A whistleblower sent a 34-page report to the Food and Drug Administration in October 2021 alleging unsanitary conditions at the Abbott factory, but it took over four months for action to be taken. In this time, one infant had died from contaminated formula, and another two were hospitalized. A second infant died from tainted formula in late February.