{"id":7870,"date":"2025-04-01T20:22:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fda-as-weve-known-it-is-finished-former-commissioner\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:22:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:22:24","slug":"fda-as-weve-known-it-is-finished-former-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/fda-as-weve-known-it-is-finished-former-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018FDA as we&#8217;ve known it is finished&#8217;: Former commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf said the federal agency that he&rsquo;s known for years &ldquo;is finished&rdquo; after mass layoffs began Tuesday morning. &ldquo;The FDA as we&#8217;ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed,&rdquo; Califf&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5226193-fda-commissioner-robert-califf-laidoffs\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert Califf said the federal agency that he&rsquo;s known for years &ldquo;is finished&rdquo; after mass layoffs began Tuesday morning. &ldquo;The FDA as we&#8217;ve known it is finished, with most of the leaders with institutional knowledge and a deep understanding of product development and safety no longer employed,&rdquo; Califf&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}