Dr. Jennifer McEntire the Founder of Food Safety Strategy, LLC, where she helps companies ‘gut check’ their food safety thinking- to validate or challenge it, so they can confidently implement and defend their programs. For over 20 years she’s used her background in food microbiology and food safety policy to help food companies and the associations that represent them assess and pragmatically manage food safety risks in order to protect public health.

She held previous food safety leadership positions with the International Fresh Produce Association, Grocery Manufacturers Association, The Acheson Group and the Institute of Food Technologists. While with IFT and TAG, McEntire led the FSMA 204 traceability pilots. McEntire earned a PhD from Rutgers University as a USDA National Needs Fellow in Food Safety and received a Bachelor of Science with Distinction, magna cum laude, in food science from the University of Delaware. She’s a member of the technical committee for the Center for Produce Safety, serves as a peer reviewer for several food safety journals, and was the 2020 recipient of the NSF International Food Safety Leadership Award and 2023 recipient of the Harold Barnum Industry Award from IAFP. She has published numerous peer reviewed articles and books, most recently “Food Traceability: from binders to blockchain”.