Abbott Says It’s Restarting Baby Formula Production in Michigan

Abbott Laboratories is restarting infant formula production at a facility today in Michigan, months after its closure on health grounds exacerbated a national shortage of food for very young children.

The company met the US Food and Drug Administration’s initial requirements under a pact reached last month, Abbott said in a blog post Saturday. A spokesperson also confirmed that the plant -- one of four facilities in the US -- is restarting baby formula production.

The pharmaceutical company shut the Sturgis plant in February after four children who had been fed formula made there were sickened and two later died. ...