When a business operator falls under either of the following items and recalls food or additives they have collected, produced, imported, processed or sold, or apparatus, or containers and packages they have manufactured, imported, or sold (excluding cases in which the recall is made by receiving an order under the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2) of the following Article and cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order as those unlikely to cause food sanitation hazards), they must notify a prefectural governor of the fact that they have commenced the recall and the status of the recall, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order, without delay.
when the business operator violates or is likely to violate the provisions of Article 6, Articles 10 through 12, Article 13, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 16, Article 18, paragraph (2) or (3), or Article 20; or
when the business operator violates or is likely to violate a prohibition under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) or Article 17, paragraph (1).
When a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been filed, a prefectural governor must report the matters notified to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order.
都道府県知事は、前項の規定による届出があつたときは、厚生労働省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、当該届出に係る事項を厚生労働大臣又は内閣総理大臣に報告しなければならない。
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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
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.