Following the "milk powder shortage", the United States has encountered a "sanitary napkin shortage"!

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] Following the "milk powder shortage", the shortage of women's sanitary products in the United States, many daily necessities companies are trying to increase the output of sanitary noodles to meet the growing needs. According to the US "Business Insider" magazine website reported on the 14th, due to the continuous supply chain problem, the US sanitary cotton strip supply was tight, and the cost of pushing such daily necessities.

The British "Guardian" reported on the 15th that a public welfare organization "The Period Project" of the public welfare organization that provided sanitary products to the poor women said to the media that the agency now wanted to pass the wholesale ways. It is difficult to order sanitary napkins. If you go to retail stores directly, you will be told that you can only buy 5 boxes of sanitary napkins at a time. Luo Wen added that in 2021, the cost of organizing the purchase of "women's sanitary supplies" (including sanitary cotton strips, sanitary napkins, pads and wet towels) was $ 5.86. rise.

The US "Business Insider" magazine website said that the shortage of sanitary napkins also shocked politicians. Senator Maggie Hassan pointed out that this situation was "worrying". On Monday, Hassan wrote a letter to the CEO of the US daily consumer goods production giant, calling on him to take measures to deal with the shortage of sanitary napkins. Hasan told a female journalist in the United States "Times Weekly" in the letter, saying that the reporter moved to several US states that he could not buy sanitary napkins in the stores in the United States. In the letter, Hassan emphasized that: In the early days of the new crown epidemic, the shortage of daily consumer goods such as toilet paper and hand -toiletting solution in the United States. Life necessities must ensure the supply, and the price should not be used to take advantage of the price. P & G and other daily consumer goods giants subsequently promised to actively solve this problem.

As for why the United States has a shortage of women's sanitary products, the US Capitol Mountain website analyzes that the supply chain is not unsight, inflation, and labor shortage, which will be superimposed to the current dilemma. Some people in the industry believe that the United States needs to import cotton and other raw materials required to import and produce sanitary napkins. Under the normal production of the factory before the epidemic, the demand for raw materials is determined by fine calculations, but the epidemic and supply chain are not smooth to disrupt the normal production arrangements of the factory. The demand for raw materials has been added, which will cause raw material prices to rise. In addition, the cost of transportation of truck drivers has increased significantly, and the shortage of workers in sanitary napkins production plant is even more "worse." In the case of increasing production costs, enterprises increase product prices and transfer cost pressure to consumers. (Zhen Xiang)

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