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Loss Contingency, Number Of Cases Stayed

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Loss Contingency, Number Of Generic Prescription Pharmaceuticals

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Loss Contingency, Number Of Individuals

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Loss Contingency, Number Of Overlapped Cases

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Loss Contingency, Number of Current Or Former Directors And Officers

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Loss Contingency, Number of Defendants Added

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Loss Contingency, Number of Defendants Dismissed without Prejudice

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Number of Cases Alleging only State Law Claims

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Number of Cases with Similar Factual Allegations

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Number of Putative Classes

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Foreign exchange rate used to remeasure amounts denominated in a currency other than functional currency into functional currency.

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-Name Accounting Standards Codification
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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Number of claims dismissed.

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The value (monetary amount) of the award the plaintiff seeks in the legal matter.

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Contingencies - Securities Litigation (Details) $ in Millions, ₪ in Billions			9 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Jun. 28, 2017 ILS (₪) individual genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical case $ / ₪	Jun. 28, 2017 USD ($) individual genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical case $ / ₪	Oct. 01, 2022 case individual class lawsuit genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical defendant	Dec. 31, 2019 case	Dec. 31, 2018 case brand	Dec. 31, 2017 case	Nov. 14, 2019 class	Jul. 31, 2018 individual	Jun. 30, 2017 case	Jun. 21, 2017 class individual genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of classes \| class			3				3			3
Number of current or former directors and officers \| individual										11
Number of individuals \| individual										11
Number of generic prescription pharmaceuticals \| genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical										6
Highfields Capital I LP, et al. v. Perrigo Company plc, et al.
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases alleging only state law claims \| lawsuit			1
Mason Capital, Pentwater and Similar Cases
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of current or former directors and officers			11
Number of generic prescription pharmaceuticals \| genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical			6
Number of cases with similar factual allegations			8
Harel Insurance and TIAA-CREFF Cases
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of current or former directors and officers \| individual			13
Number of individuals \| individual								11
Number of generic prescription pharmaceuticals \| genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical			6
Number of cases with similar factual allegations			2
Number of defendants added \| defendant			2
Number of defendants dismissed without prejudice \| individual								8
Other Cases Related to Events in 2015-2017
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases with similar factual allegations									1
Number of overlapped cases									4
Blackrock Global Complaint
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of generic prescription pharmaceuticals \| genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical			6
First Manhattan and Similar Cases
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of generic prescription pharmaceuticals			6
Israel Elec. Corp. Employees' Educ. Fund v. Perrigo Company plc, et al.
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of current or former directors and officers \| individual	11	11
Number of generic prescription pharmaceuticals \| genericPrescriptionPharmaceutical	6	6
Number of cases dismissed	2	2
Preliminary class damages	₪ 2.7	$ 760.0
Foreign currency exchange rate, remeasurement \| $ / ₪	0.28	0.28
Carmignac, First Manhattan and Similar Cases
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases alleging only state law claims \| lawsuit			7
In Israel (Cases Related to Events in 2015-2017)
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases					3
Number of cases dismissed					1	1
Number of cases stayed \| brand					1
In Israel (Cases Related to Irish Tax Events)
Loss Contingencies [Line Items]
Number of cases stayed				2