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The FDA has just sent new warning letters to three formula companies, red-flagging quality control concerns. The FDA has sent warning letter s to three formula companies, red-flagging concerns about serious quality control issues at some manufacturing facilities. The warning letters were all sent Wednesday to Reckitt/Mead Johnson and Perrigo -- two long-dominating industry forces -- and ByHeart, a relative newcomer to a previously hyperconcentrated market. All three companies had jumped in to ramp up their manufacturing amid an urgent baby formula shortage last year in the wake of major recalls at Abbott, one of the nation's major suppliers. ABC News was first to report last summer that several major formula makers other than Abbott had also struggled with contamination concerns, particularly with the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii -- and that those other formula makers had been warned by regulators for subpar conditions and critical equipment deficiencies at the time. MORE: I...

Tropical storm warnings have been issued from North Carolina to Maryland ahead of a system that's forecast to develop into Tropical Storm Ophelia on Friday. Tropical storm warnings have been issued from North Carolina to Maryland on Thursday ahead of a system that's forecast to develop into Tropical Storm Ophelia. No storm has formed at this point, but the system will become better organized over the next 24 hours. It's forecast to strengthen into Tropical Storm Ophelia on Friday or Friday night as the storm closes in on the North Carolina coast. Tropical storm warnings have been issued from North Carolina to Maryland on Thursday ahead of a system that's forecast to develop into Tropical Storm Ophelia. NOAA MORE: Hurricane preparedness tips, resources to help keep your family safe The rain, tropical storm-force winds and storm surge will reach parts of the Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic coast late Friday into Saturday. Ophelia is forecast to make landfall as a trop...

Last month, both Kilauea, one of the most active volcanos in the world, and Mauna Loa, the largest volcano in the world, ignited the landscape of Hawaii's Big Island. The Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island has started erupting again. The U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday night that its Hawaiian Volcano Observatory "detected glow" in webcam images of the Kilauea summit, "indicating that the eruption has resumed within Halemaʻumaʻu crater in Kīlauea's summit caldera, within Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park." In this image posted to the USGS Volcanoes Twitter account, a fissure is shown within the Halema'uma'u crater in Kilauea's summit caldera on Jan. 5, 2023. @USGSVolcanoes/Twitter MORE: Hawaii's Big Island abuzz over simultaneous eruptions at Mauna Loa and Kilauea The USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory has elevated the volcano alert from "watch" to " warning ." "The opening phases of eruptions are dyn...