The national government and prefectures, etc. must work together in cooperation with each other to ensure that the monitoring or guidance concerning food sanitation (referred to below as "monitoring and guidance") will be comprehensively and promptly conducted, in order to prevent persons poisoned by food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages or persons suspected of being poisoned by them (referred to below as "patients with food poisoning, etc.") from spreading or increasing across wide areas, and prevent violations of this Act, or orders or dispositions based on this Act, concerning food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that are distributed over wide areas.
prefectures, etc.
「都道府県等」
A prefecture, a city with a public health center (保健所を設置する市) or a special ward (特別区).
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (3)
food
「食品」
All food and drink, except the pharmaceutical products, quasi-pharmaceutical products and regenerative medicine products defined in the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (1)· applies throughout the law
additives
「添加物」
A substance used in or on food, by adding, mixing, soaking or any other method, in the course of producing food or to process or preserve it.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (2)· applies throughout the law
apparatus
「器具」
Tableware, kitchen utensils and other machines, equipment and articles that are used in collecting, producing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting, displaying, handing over or consuming food or additives and that touch the food or additives directly; those used to harvest food in farming and fisheries are not included.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (4)· applies throughout the law
containers and packages
「容器包装」
Anything that holds or wraps food or additives and is handed over with them, as it is, when the food or additives change hands.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (5)· applies throughout the law
food sanitation
「食品衛生」
Hygiene in eating and drinking, as it concerns food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (6)· applies throughout the law
monitoring and guidance
「監視指導」
The monitoring or guidance concerning food sanitation that the national government and prefectures, etc. carry out, which Article 21-2 requires them to coordinate so that it is done comprehensively and promptly.
Short name set inArticle 21-2, paragraph (1)
persons poisoned by food, etc.
「食中毒患者等」
A person poisoned by food, additives, apparatus or containers and packages, or a person suspected of having been.
Short name set inArticle 21-2, paragraph (1)