1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Truth in Certification for Foreign Food Ingredients Act . 2. Program of foreign capacity building to strengthen transparency, trace­abil­ity and fraud prevention of food products and ingredients exported to the United States (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) Approximately 15 percent of the United States food supply consists of imported products. (2) Food products and ingredients with special characteristics command a premium price in the United States market. (3) American food manufacturers rely on getting ingredients that consistently meet the specifications they need. (4) Many foreign governments lack the capacity or expertise to trace back food ingredients or protect against fraudulent changes in paperwork to ensure that ingredients exported to the United States were actually produced in accordance with the standards claimed. (5) Such frauds cheat consumers who are willing to pay premiums for food and feed with special characteristics, cheat producers and processors who use ingredients with special characteristics, and unfairly put American producers at a competitive disadvantage in marketing specialized products. (6) Fraudulent food imports also put consumers who have food allergies at risk when food labels are mislabeled and do not accurately reflect the ingredients contained in the food product. (b) Capacity building program Section 503 of the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 ( 7 U.S.C. 5693 ) is amended— (1) by striking The Service and inserting (a) In General .—The Foreign Agricultural Service