{"id":1025,"date":"2026-05-13T13:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2026-05-13T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T13:44:53","slug":"what-to-know-about-kyle-diamantas-the-new-acting-fda-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1025","title":{"rendered":"What to know about Kyle Diamantas, the new acting FDA commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-lawyer who Trump described as \u2018very talented\u2019 was previously deputy commissioner for food at the FDA<\/p>\n<p>The new acting commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who Donald Trump described as a \u201cvery talented person\u201d, is a former corporate lawyer who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/03\/04\/health\/fda-infant-formula-kyle-diamantas.html\">previously defended <\/a>a popular formula maker against claims of its product harming premature babies.<\/p>\n<p>Kyle Diamantas, who most recently served as the FDA deputy commissioner for food, will be taking over as acting FDA commissioner.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/13\/kyle-diamantas-new-acting-fda-commissioner\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-lawyer who Trump described as \u2018very talented\u2019 was previously deputy commissioner for food at the FDA The new acting commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=1025\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}