; (7) the fragmented Federal food safety system and outdated laws preclude an integrated, systemwide approach to preventing foodborne illness, to the effective and efficient operation of the Nation’s food safety program, and to the most beneficial deployment of food safety resources; (8) the National Academy of Sciences recommended in the report Ensuring Safe Food from Production to Consumption that Congress establish by statute a unified and central framework for managing Federal food safety programs, and recommended modifying Federal statutes so that inspection, enforcement, and research efforts are based on scientifically supportable assessments of risks to public health; and (9) the lack of a single focal point for food safety leadership in the United States undercuts the ability of the United States to exert food safety leadership internationally, which is detrimental to the public health and the international trade interests of the United States. (b) Purposes The purposes of this Act are— (1) to establish a single agency to be known as the Food Safety Administration to— (A) regulate food safety and related labeling to strengthen the protection of the public health; (B) ensure that food facilities fulfill their responsibility to produce food in a manner that protects the public health of all people in the United States; (C) lead an integrated, systemwide approach to food safety and to make more effective and efficient use of resources to prevent foodborne illness; (D) provide a single focal point for food safety leadership, both nationally and internationally; and (E) provide an integrated food safety research capability, utilizing internally generated, scientifically and statistically valid studies, in cooperation with academic institutions and other scientific entities of the Federal and State governments, to achieve the continuous improvement of research on foodborne illness and contaminants