The national government and prefectures must establish necessary facilities for inspections to conduct the affairs concerning the inspections referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1) or Article 26, paragraphs (1) through (3) (referred to below as "product inspections") and the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article.
Cities with public health centers and special wards must establish necessary facilities for inspections to conduct 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) of the preceding Article.
The necessary matters for food sanitation inspection facilities of prefectures, etc. are specified by Cabinet Order.
都道府県等の食品衛生検査施設に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
cities with public health centers
「保健所を設置する市」
A city that a Cabinet Order (政令) under Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Community Health Act names as one that sets up its own public health center (保健所); it shares the duties this Act gives prefectures, and in the articles Article 76 lists its mayor acts in place of the prefectural governor.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1)
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
product inspections
「製品検査」
The inspections by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, a prefectural governor or a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) that certain food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages a Cabinet Order (政令) names must pass before they are sold or used in business (Article 25, paragraph (1)), or that may be ordered for products likely to break the rules: further products of a maker whose product was found in breach, imports of the same kind of products made by such a maker, or imports that the conditions where they are produced make likely to be in breach (Article 26, paragraphs (1) to (3)).
Short name set inArticle 29, paragraph (1)
special ward
特別区
A ward (区) of a metropolis (都) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 281, paragraph (1)). Today the only special wards are the 23 wards of Tokyo. A special ward is a basic local government in its own right: it does, in general, the work a city, town or village (市町村) does elsewhere, apart from what the metropolis does across all the wards as one (Article 281-2, paragraph (2)). Where a law or order gives a city (市) work to do, its provisions on that work also apply to a special ward, for the work the ward does (Article 281, paragraph (2), and Article 283, paragraph (2)); a Cabinet Order (政令) can make special rules where they cannot apply as they stand (Article 283, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 281, 281-2, 283 as a reference.