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Amount of expense for salary, wage, profit sharing; incentive and equity-based compensation; and other employee benefit. Other employee benefit expense includes, but is not limited to, service component of net periodic benefit cost for defined benefit plan. Excludes compensation cost in cost of good and service sold.

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Business Combination and Divestitures - Additional Information (Details) $ / shares in Units, $ in Millions				2 Months Ended	3 Months Ended		9 Months Ended
	Jul. 31, 2025 USD ($) $ / shares shares	Jun. 17, 2025 USD ($)	Nov. 29, 2024 USD ($)	Sep. 26, 2025 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 26, 2025 USD ($) $ / shares	Sep. 27, 2024 USD ($)	Sep. 26, 2025 USD ($) segment $ / shares	Sep. 27, 2024 USD ($)	Nov. 10, 2025 $ / shares shares	Dec. 27, 2024 USD ($) $ / shares	Feb. 02, 2024
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Number of reportable segments \| segment							3
Goodwill				$ 7.3	$ 7.3		$ 7.3			$ 0.0
Combination, integration, and other related expenses						$ 0.0	136.9	$ 0.0
Liabilities management and separation costs					$ 33.3	15.2	$ 36.9	32.2
Preferred shares, par value (in usd per share) \| $ / shares				$ 0.01	$ 0.01		$ 0.01			$ 0.01
Payments related to divestitures (Note 3)							$ 6.2
Transition services agreement term							18 months
Transaction services agreement revenue					$ 1.6		$ 6.8
Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Preferred shares, par value (in usd per share) \| $ / shares									$ 0.001
Shares of stock acquired in separation (in shares) \| shares									39,421,398
Redemption date, percentage of shares acquired									1
Tranche One
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percent of award delivered											50.00%
Tranche Two
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percent of award delivered											50.00%
Tranche Three
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Percent of award delivered											100.00%
Par Health \| Subsequent Event
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Preferred shares, par value (in usd per share) \| $ / shares									$ 0.01
International Pharmaceutical Business \| Disposal Group, Disposed of by Sale, Not Discontinued Operations \| Endo
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Proceeds from divestiture		$ 89.9			2.4
Divestiture consideration		78.6
Divestiture consideration, holdback		$ 11.3		$ 9.5	9.5		9.5
Divestiture consideration, inventory true-up					0.5
Divestiture consideration, employee termination					1.9
Divestiture consideration, contingent milestones				15.0	15.0		15.0
Therakos Divestiture
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Proceeds from divestiture			$ 887.6				881.4
Transaction Incentive Plan \| Therakos Divestiture
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Participant compensation paid after 12 months					15.6
Compensation expense					9.5	$ 7.3	12.9	$ 7.3
Accrued payroll and related costs										$ 2.7
Mallinckrodt & Endo Merger
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Share exchange ratio (in shares) \| shares	0.2575
Cash paid per share (in dollars per share) \| $ / shares	$ 1.31
Acquiree net sales				274.5
Acquiree net loss				$ 155.0
Goodwill	$ 7.3
Combination, integration, and other related expenses					93.8		136.9
Business combination, severance related costs					44.1
Mallinckrodt & Endo Merger \| Transaction Incentive Plan
Business Acquisition [Line Items]
Participant compensation paid after 12 months					$ 99.3		$ 99.3