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A shortage of baby formula in the US is linked to supply chain challenges and the closure of a major factory in February after a recall linked to bacteria. Parents are travelling far and wide to find baby formula as a shortage that began earlier this year worsens as experts say this is the worst formula shortage in decades.

Jessica Smith, who lives in central Texas and has been struggling to find specialist formula for her four-and-a-half month baby daughter and Chamieka House-Osuyam, the founder and CEO of the Snack Sack - a mutual aid organisation in Texas that serves聽 families across the United States, discuss the impact of the formula shortage. Jessica says the shortage has caused her "mental anguish", and Chamieka says that it has forced some parents to take the "dangerous and unsafe" measures of diluting formula or even making it themselves.

"I've broken down crying in grocery stores. We're walking into stores first thing in the morning and the shelves are bare." - Jessica Smith

Photo: A mother feeding her baby Credit: Getty Images

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