US FDA Commissioner Califf’s Baptism By Fire – Or, At Least, Formula

Robert Califf’s second tenure as FDA commissioner already feels different from the first, thanks to a national shortage of infant formula – and an abundance of questions about what FDA could have done to prevent it.

Califf and baby formula
The baby formula shortage has put the challenges of being FDA commissioner into stark relief. • Source: Nielsen Hobbs; the Pink Sheet | Alamy and Shutterstock images

US Food & Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf’s was sworn in earlier this year with an unsurpassed resume for the job: he had done it before.

That experience from the last year of the Obama Administration meant that Califf had direct, first-hand experience with what it...

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