Baby formula shipment arrives from Europe, providing ‘some relief’ for US families

Biden economic adviser says US to see more baby formula on shelves as 70,000lb of product lands in Indianapolis on Sunday

A top White House economic adviser on Sunday said he was hopeful there would be more baby formula on American store shelves this upcoming week, especially after a plane full of the product arrived from an airbase in Germany.

Brian Deese, the director of the National Economic Council, told CNN State of the Union host Dana Bash that the plane carrying 70,000lb of baby formula - enough for half a million bottles - from Ramstein airbase in Germany which landed in Indianapolis on Sunday morning should cover about 15% of the product's nationwide shortage. About 45% of baby formula products were out of stock across the US last week, according to figures that Bash cited during her interview of Deese, who didn't dispute them.

We're going to see more formula ... in stores starting as early as this week," said Deese, adding that the incoming Nestle product was a specialty medical grade formula, the type that we most need in this market".