to a food-borne illness outbreak or is otherwise 
found to be adulterated or mislabeled; and 
(3) promulgate rules and regulations to carry 
out the purposes of this section, including setting 
terms and conditions for the destruction of products 
that fail to meet the standards of this Act. 
(i) DETENTION AND SEIZURE.—Any food imported 
for consumption in the United States may be detained, 
seized, or condemned pursuant to section 402. 
SEC. 209. RESOURCE PLAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator shall prepare 
and update annually a resource plan describing the re-
sources required, in the best professional judgment of the 
Administrator, to develop and fully implement the national 
food safety program established under this Act. 
(b) CONTENTS OF PLAN.—The resource plan shall— 
(1) describe quantitatively the personnel, finan-
cial, and other resources required to carry out the 
inspection of food establishments under section 205 
and other requirements of the national food safety 
program; 
(2) allocate inspection resources in a manner 
reflecting the distribution of risk and opportunities 
to reduce risk across the food supply to the extent 
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feasible based on the best available information, and 
subject to section 205; and 
(3) describe the personnel, facilities, equipment, 
and other resources needed to carry out inspection 
and other oversight activities, at a total resource 
level equal to at least 50 percent of the resources re-
quired to carry out inspections in food establish-
ments under section 205— 
(A) in foreign establishments; 
(B) at the point of importation; and 
(C) at the point of production on farms, 
ranches, and feedlots. 
(c) GRANTS.—The resource plan shall include rec-
ommendations for funding to provide grants to States and 
local governments to carry out food safety activities in re-
tail and food service facilities and the required inspections 
in food establishments. 
(d) SUBMISSION OF PLAN.—The Administrator shall 
submit annually to the Committee on Appropriations of 
the Senate, the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives, and other relevant committees of Con-
gress, the resource plan required under this section. 
SEC. 210. TRACEBACK. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator, in order to 
protect the public health, shall establish requirements for 
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a national system for tracing food and food producing ani-
mals from point of origin to retail sale, subject to sub-
section (b). 
(b) 
APPLICABILITY.—Traceability 
requirements 
shall— 
(1) be established in accordance with regula-
tions and guidelines issued by the Administrator; 
and 
(2) apply to food production facilities and food 
establishments. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO COUNTRY OF ORIGIN LABEL-
ING.—Nothing contained in this section prevents or inter-
feres with implementation of the country of origin labeling 
requirements of subtitle D of the Agricultural Marketing 
Act of 1946 (7 U.S.C. 1638 et seq.). 
TITLE III—RESEARCH AND 
EDUCATION 
SEC. 301. PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT SYSTEM. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator, acting in co-
ordination with the Director of the Centers for Disease 
Control and Prevention and with the Research Education 
and Economics mission area of the Department of Agri-
culture, shall— 
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(1) have access to the applicable data systems 
of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
and to the databases made available by a State; 
(2) maintain an active surveillance system of 
food, food products, and epidemiological evidence 
submitted by States to the Centers for Disease Con-
trol and Prevention based on a representative pro-
portion of the population of the United States; 
(3) assess the frequency and sources of human 
illness in the United States associated with the con-
sumption of food; 
(4) maintain a state-of-the-art DNA matching 
system and epidemiological system dedicated to food- 
borne illness identification, outbreaks, and contain-
ment; and 
(5) have access to the surveillance data created 
via monitoring and statistical studies conducted as 
part of its own inspection. 
(b) PUBLIC HEALTH SAMPLING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 
the effective date of this Act, the Administrator shall 
establish guidelines for a sampling system under 
which the Administrator shall take and analyze sam-
ples of food— 
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(A) to assist the Administrator in carrying 
out this Act; and 
(B) to assess the nature, frequency of oc-
currence, and quantities of contaminants in 
food. 
(2) REQUIREMENTS.—The sampling system de-
scribed in paragraph (1) shall provide— 
(A) statistically valid monitoring, including 
market-based studies, on the nature, frequency 
of occurrence, and quantities of contaminants 
in food available to consumers; and 
(B) at the request of the Administrator, 
such other information, including analysis of 
monitoring and verification samples, as the Ad-
ministrator determines may be useful in assess-
ing the occurrence of contaminants in food. 
(c) ASSESSMENT OF HEALTH HAZARDS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Through the surveillance 
system referred to in subsection (a) and the sam-
pling system described in subsection (b), the Admin-
istrator shall— 
(A) rank food categories based on the haz-
ard to human health presented by the food cat-
egory; 
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