A Democratic party candidate for the Missouri U.S. Senate nomination says the baby formula industry is “run by a corporate cartel” and the people in charge of the recent national shortage should be in jail.

The text of an op-ed written by candidate Lucas Kunce has been released to the media by his campaign.

“If we had a real functioning market, we wouldn’t be in this situation,” Kunce writes. “But in America, industry lobbyists and government bureaucrats have put just a handful of giant corporations in control of the price and supply of formula.”

Kunce recalls that in October 2021, a whistleblower from Abbott’s Sturgis, Michigan, plant sent the FDA a 34-page document outlining potential concerns, including contamination and sanitary issues.

“The FDA sat on the allegations until Jan. 31 before starting an investigation, ” he writes. “Three months. By then, the bureaucrats were too late. Two babies who drank the contaminated formula had already died and more were hospitalized.”

Kunce says after the FDA warned parents, Abbott voluntarily recalled formula, which he says gutted the baby formula supply across the country.

Kunce says what he calls the “baby formula cartel” should be broken up.

“The Department of Justice needs to actually enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act and break up the baby formula cartel so that it’s a functioning market, not just a few giant companies,” he writes. “Political elites won’t act because Abbott Nutrition’s corporate PAC has spent over $700,000...

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