When a business operator violates the provisions of Article 6, Article 8, paragraph (1), Articles 10 through 12, Article 13, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 16, Article 18, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 19, paragraph (2), Article 20, Article 25, paragraph (1), Article 26, paragraph (4), Article 48, paragraph (1), Article 50, paragraph (2), Article 51, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (2) or Article 53, paragraph (1), violates a prohibition under the provisions of Article 7, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 9, paragraph (1) or Article 17, paragraph (1), has come to fall under Article 55, paragraph (2), item (i) or (iii), or violates the conditions under the provisions of paragraph (3) of that Article, a prefectural governor may revoke the approval referred to in paragraph (1) of that Article, prohibit the business in whole or in part, or suspend the business by specifying a period.
都道府県知事は、営業者が第六条、第八条第一項、第十条から第十二条まで、第十三条第二項若しくは第三項、第十六条、第十八条第二項若しくは第三項、第十九条第二項、第二十条、第二十五条第一項、第二十六条第四項、第四十八条第一項、第五十条第二項、第五十一条第二項、第五十二条第二項若しくは第五十三条第一項の規定に違反した場合、第七条第一項から第三項まで、第九条第一項若しくは第十七条第一項の規定による禁止に違反した場合、第五十五条第二項第一号若しくは第三号に該当するに至つた場合又は同条第三項の規定による条件に違反した場合においては、同条第一項の許可を取り消し、又は営業の全部若しくは一部を禁止し、若しくは期間を定めて停止することができる。
When a business operator (limited to a person or corporation that is engaged in import of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages) violates the provisions of Article 6, Article 8, paragraph (1), Article 10, paragraph (2), Article 11, Article 12, Article 13, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 16, Article 18, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 26, paragraph (4), Article 50, paragraph (2), Article 51, paragraph (2), Article 52, paragraph (2) or Article 53, paragraph (1), or violates a prohibition under the provisions of Article 7, paragraphs (1) through (3), Article 9, paragraph (1) or Article 17, paragraph (1), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may prohibit the business in whole or in part, or suspend the business by specifying a period.
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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
「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