Abbott Laboratories, whose plant was shut down by the Food and Drug Administration, was the biggest supplier of formula to Vermont’s Women, Infants and Children program. Wikimedia Commons file photo ...

Brittany Smick feeds her 4-month-old daughter Estelle Raine Cole in Barre on Aug. 8. Estelle has a medical condition that requires her to take special formula, which her mother has had difficulty ...

A new mom picking up pasteurized breast milk at the Vermont Donor Milk Center in Essex Junction Credit: Daria Bishop In March, Colchester resident Beth Raymond noticed it was becoming difficult to ...

Baby formula — or lack of it — made lots of headlines in the spring, when parents of infants were encountering purchasing restrictions and bare shelves at grocery stores. The nationwide shortage was ...