①The meat, bones, milk, organs, and blood of livestock (meaning livestock defined in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Slaughterhouse Act (Act No. 114 of 1953) and other animals specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies below) that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in item (i) or (iii), have an abnormality stated in item (i) or (iii), or have fallen dead, or the meat, bones, and organs of poultry (meaning poultry defined in Article 2, item (i) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act (Act No. 70 of 1990) and other birds specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies below) that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in item (ii) or (iii), have an abnormality stated in item (ii) or (iii), or have fallen dead, must not be sold as food, or collected, processed, used, cooked, stored, or displayed as food for the purpose of selling, excluding cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply to the meat, bones, and organs of livestock or poultry that have fallen dead which the ministry's officials find unlikely to harm human health and are suitable for eating and drinking.

②The meat, milk, and organs of livestock, and the meat and organs of poultry, and their products specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "livestock meat, etc." below in this paragraph) must not be imported as food for the purpose of selling, unless they are attached with a certificate issued by a governmental organization of an exporting country or its copy stating that they are not the meat, milk, or organs of livestock, or the meat or organs of poultry, or their products that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in each item of the preceding paragraph, have an abnormality stated in each item of that paragraph, or have fallen dead, and stating other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "matters on sanitation" below in this paragraph); provided, however, that this does not apply to livestock meat, etc. imported from a country specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the matters on sanitation for the livestock meat, etc. have been sent from a governmental organization of the country via a telecommunications line to a computer used by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (including an input and output device) and have been recorded in a file stored on the computer.

①The food and additives specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those that require measures to control particularly important processes for preventing food sanitation hazards to be taken, must not be imported for the purpose of selling, unless they have been produced or processed in a country or region, or facilities specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as being certain that those measures have been taken.

②The food and additives specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those that require proof of the state of food sanitation management at the production site to confirm that they do not fall under any of the food and additives stated in the items of Article 6 and confirm other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must not be imported for the purpose of selling, unless they are attached with a certificate issued by a governmental organization of the exporting country, and stating those matters, or its copy.

Additives (excluding natural flavoring agents and things that have been generally served for human consumption, and are used as additives) and formulations and food containing those additives must not be sold or be produced, imported, processed, used, stored, or displayed for the purpose of selling, unless the Prime Minister specifies them as those unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council.

①The Prime Minister may establish the criteria for the method of producing, processing, using, cooking, or preserving food or additives to be sold, or the standards for the ingredients of food or additives to be sold, from the viewpoint of public health, after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council.

②When the criteria or standards have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, food or additives must not be produced, processed, used, cooked, or preserved using a method that does not conform to the criteria, food or additives made using a method that does not conform to the criteria must not be sold or imported, and food or additives that do not conform to the standards must not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, preserved, or sold.

③Food in which agricultural chemicals (meaning agricultural chemicals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Act (Act No. 82 of 1948), the same applies in the following Article), substances that are used by being added, mixed or infiltrated into feed (meaning feed prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feed (Act No. 35 of 1953)) or are used by other methods for the purpose of usage specified by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries based on Article 2, paragraph (3) of that Act, and substances that are ingredients of pharmaceuticals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices and are to be used for animals (including substances generated by chemical change of that substance, and excluding those specified by the Prime Minister as those clearly not likely to harm human health) remain in a quantity exceeding the quantity that the Prime Minister has specified as being unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council, must not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, or preserved for the purpose of selling, or be sold; provided, however, that this does not apply when standards for the ingredients of food referred to in paragraph (1) have been established concerning the limit of the amount of residue of those substances in the food.

When the Prime Minister establishes a limit on the amount of substances (including substances generated by the chemical change of those substances) that are ingredients of agricultural chemicals, feed additives defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feed, or pharmaceuticals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices and are to be used for the purpose of using solely for animals (referred to as "agricultural chemicals, etc." below in this Article) which remain in food, as standards for the ingredients of food referred to in paragraph (1) of the preceding Article, and specifies the scope of meat, milk and other products of the target animals (meaning the target animals prescribed in Article 14, paragraph (2), item (iii), sub-item (b) of that Act pursuant to Article 83, paragraph (1) of that Act following the deemed replacement of terms) for which regenerative medicine products defined in Article 2, paragraph (9) of that Act which are to be used for the purpose of using solely for animals (referred to as "animal regenerative medicine products" below in this Article) have been used, and in other cases the Prime Minister finds to be necessary, the Prime Minister may request the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to provide materials on the ingredients of the agricultural chemicals, etc. or the component cells and transgenes of the animal regenerative medicine products, or other things specified by Cabinet Office Order, and provide other necessary cooperation.