Amoxicillin powder, which is mixed to make the liquid formulation of the antibiotic that’s commonly used for children, has been in shortage since October 2022, the US Food and Drug ...

Amoxicillin is cheap and not very profitable, and this may have driven other companies out of the market. Most of the companies still producing liquid amoxicillin have it on allocation.

This is very frustrating to parents – myself included - because the liquid form of amoxicillin is what doctors prescribe for our young children who can't swallow pills.