Jon Woody, CAPT, USPHS (Ret.)

Captain Jon Woody, USPHS (Ret.) is the President and Founder of Woody Food Strategies, LLC. With over 27 years of expertise in food safety, defense, and food fraud, he partners with organizations to strengthen their food safety and food defense programs, and supports clients in achieving regulatory compliance. During his 24-year career at FDA, Jon held several executive leadership positions within the Agency’s foods program, focusing on areas such as retail food safety, food defense, food fraud, and traceability. He played a pivotal role in shaping key policies related to FDA’s Food Code, the Food Safety Modernization Act Intentional Adulteration rule, and the Food Traceability rule implementation.