Jon works for the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a Senior Policy Analyst in Food Defense. In this role he is the Agency lead for all food defense vulnerability assessments and works to identify both vulnerable areas within the food industry and appropriate preventive measures. Jon has extensive experience working both domestically in the US and Internationally on food defense issues and has worked collaboratively with government and industry stakeholders in Central and South America, Europe, and South Asia.In this podcast we talk to him about the Food Defense Plan Builder software tool, the workshops that are being run Internationally and the Food Safety Modernization Act and its impact on exporters to the US. During the podcast Jon refers to a number of locations to find resource information on the FDA website.