The pediatric nutritionals giant Abbott Labs and the US government agency responsible for regulating the company were both informed of an employee complaint about dilapidated and unsafe manufacturing conditions at the firm’s Sturgis, Michigan, baby formula factory eight months earlier than they have previously acknowledged. The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, based on disclosures from an anonymous government official, that a formal complaint was filed by a former Abbott Labs employee in February 2021. The complaint raised “product safety concerns” under the guarantees of the U.S. Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) whistleblower protection program
— source wsws.org | 9 Jun 2022