The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged for the first time that nine children may have died after consuming contaminated baby formula made by Abbott at the largest baby formula manufacturing plant in the nation. 

Washington, June 14 (RHC)-- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged for the first time that nine children may have died after consuming contaminated baby formula made by Abbott at the largest baby formula manufacturing plant in the nation. 

Until recently, the FDA had only acknowledged the deaths of two children linked to the contamination outbreak at an Abbott plant in Michigan. 

A whistleblower at the plant sent the FDA a report detailing safety and sanitation violations by Abbott in February 2021, but it took the FDA a year to take action and close the plant. 

Meanwhile, baby formula shortages are still increasing in parts of the country, especially in the South and Southwest.