When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or a prefectural governor, etc. finds it necessary, they may request a business operator or other relevant persons to make the necessary report, have their officials conduct an inspection of the place of business, office, warehouse, and other places, inspect food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages to be used for selling or used for business, business facilities, books and documents, and other objects, or have the officials collect and remove food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages to be used for selling or used for business, to the extent necessary for using them for testing, without compensation for the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages.
When having officials conduct on-site inspection, or collect and remove objects pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or the prefectural governor, etc. must have the officials carry their identification card, and, present it when requested by the relevant persons.
前項の規定により当該職員に臨検検査又は収去をさせる場合においては、これにその身分を示す証票を携帯させ、かつ、関係者の請求があるときは、これを提示させなければならない。
The authority under the provisions of paragraph (1) must not be construed as having been granted for the purpose of a criminal investigation.
第一項の規定による権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解釈してはならない。
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or a prefectural governor, etc. may entrust the affairs concerning the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) to a registered conformity assessment body.
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
「営業」
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; collecting food in farming and fisheries is not included.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (7)· 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
registered conformity assessment body
「登録検査機関」
A corporation registered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 33, paragraph (1) as a body that carries out product inspections (製品検査).
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (9)· applies throughout the law
prefectural governor, etc.
「都道府県知事等」
A prefectural governor, the mayor of a city with a public health center (保健所を設置する市), or the mayor of a special ward (特別区).
Short name set inArticle 8, paragraph (1)
Prime Minister
内閣総理大臣
The head of the Cabinet. Designated by the Diet from among its own members, and appointed by the Emperor on that designation (Articles 67 and 6). The Prime Minister appoints and may dismiss the other Ministers of State at will, and a majority of them must be members of the Diet (Article 68). No Minister of State can be subjected to legal action while in office without the Prime Minister's consent (Article 75).
Written by AI using Constitution, Arts. 6, 67, 68, 75 and Wikipedia: Prime Minister of Japan as a reference.