Each fiscal year, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish a plan on the monitoring and guidance to be implemented by the national government concerning the following fiscal year's import of food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages (referred to below as the "imported food monitoring and guidance plan"), based on the guidelines.
The imported food monitoring and guidance plan is to specify the following matters:
輸入食品監視指導計画は、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。
matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented, in view of the circumstances at the production site and other circumstances;
生産地の事情その他の事情からみて重点的に監視指導を実施すべき項目に関する事項
matters concerning guidance of the implementation of voluntary sanitation management for a business operator engaged in import; and
輸入を行う営業者に対する自主的な衛生管理の実施に係る指導に関する事項
other necessary matters for implementing monitoring and guidance.
その他監視指導の実施のために必要な事項
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has established or amended the imported food monitoring and guidance plan, the Minister is to publicize that fact without delay.
厚生労働大臣は、輸入食品監視指導計画を定め、又はこれを変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表するものとする。
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to publicize the implementation status of the imported food monitoring and guidance plan.
厚生労働大臣は、輸入食品監視指導計画の実施の状況について、公表するものとする。
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
business operator
「営業者」
A person or corporation that runs a business (営業) as this Act defines it: collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting or selling food or additives, or making, importing or selling apparatus or containers and packages, as a trade.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (8)· 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)
guidelines
「指針」
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister set under Article 22 for the monitoring and guidance (監視指導) the national government and prefectures, etc. carry out, on which their yearly monitoring and guidance plans are based.
Short name set inArticle 22, paragraph (1)
imported food monitoring and guidance plan
「輸入食品監視指導計画」
The plan the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets each fiscal year, based on the guidelines (指針), for the monitoring and guidance (監視指導) the national government will carry out on imports of food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages in the following fiscal year.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (1)