Captain Jon Woody

Captain Jon Woody is currently the Director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Food Defense and Emergency Coordination Staff at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. He leads a senior staff of subject matter experts that work to develop policies and resources aimed at preventing intentional adulteration of FDA regulated food products. CAPT Woody has over 16 years of experience working on food defense initiatives at FDA and he has served as one of the lead technical writers for the Food Safety Modernization Act Intentional Adulteration rule. CAPT Woody has led training courses both domestically and internationally on food defense concepts and has worked collaboratively with government and industry stakeholders in numerous countries.