Following the “milk powder shortage”, the United States suffered a “shortage of sanitary napkins”!India Sanitary napkin machinery

Following the “milk powder shortage”, the United States suffered a “shortage of sanitary napkins”!India Sanitary napkin machinery

Following the “milk powder shortage”, there is a shortage of feminine hygiene products in the United States, and many commodity companies are making efforts to increase the output of tampons to meet the increasing demand. According to the website of Business Insider magazine reported on the 14th, due to the continuous supply chain problems, the supply of tampons in the United States is tight, pushing up the cost of such daily necessities.

The British newspaper The Guardian reported on the 15th that Laurie Tam, the head of The Period Project, a public welfare organization that provides free sanitary products to poor women, told the media that it was difficult for the organization to order sanitary napkins through wholesale. If it went to a retail store to buy them directly, it was told that it could only buy five cases of sanitary napkins at a time. Tam added that in 2021, the organization’s cost of purchasing “feminine hygiene kits” (including tampons, sanitary napkins, pads and wet wipes) was $5.86, but now the organization needs to spend $10, and this price is still rising.

The website of American Business Insider magazine said that the shortage of sanitary napkins also alarmed politicians, and Senator Maggie Hassan pointed out that this situation was “worrying”. On Monday, Hassan wrote to the CEO of American consumer goods giant, calling on him to take measures to deal with the shortage of sanitary napkins. In his letter, Hassan recounted the experience of a female reporter of Time magazine in the United States, saying that the reporter traveled to several states in the United States and found that sanitary napkins could not be bought in stores. Hassan emphasized in his letter: At the beginning of the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, there was a shortage of toilet paper, hand sanitizer and other daily consumer goods and the price soared. At that time, people condemned this kind of taking the opportunity to raise prices and make improper profits. Sanitary napkins are also necessities of life, so we must ensure the supply, and we should not take the opportunity to drive up prices. Procter & Gamble and other consumer goods giants subsequently promised to actively solve this problem.

As to why there is a shortage of feminine hygiene products in the United States, web analytics, on Capitol Hill in the United States, said that factors such as poor supply chain, inflation and labor shortage are superimposed, resulting in the current predicament. Some insiders believe that the United States needs to import raw materials such as cotton needed to produce sanitary napkins. Before the epidemic, the demand for raw materials was determined by fine calculation in normal production in factories. However, the epidemic and poor supply chain disrupted the normal production arrangement of factories and increased the demand for raw materials, which in turn caused the price of raw materials to rise. In addition, the freight cost of truck drivers has been greatly increased, and the shortage of workers in sanitary napkin factories has made things worse. With the increase of production cost, enterprises raise product prices and shift the cost pressure to consumers.

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