Chapter VI Monitoring and Guidance
第六章 監視指導
第二十一条の二
The national government and prefectures, etc. must work together in cooperation with each other to ensure that the monitoring or guidance concerning food sanitation (referred to below as "monitoring and guidance") will be comprehensively and promptly conducted, in order to prevent persons poisoned by food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages or persons suspected of being poisoned by them (referred to below as "patients with food poisoning, etc.") from spreading or increasing across wide areas, and prevent violations of this Act, or orders or dispositions based on this Act, concerning food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that are distributed over wide areas.
第二十一条の三
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may establish a wide-area cooperation council consisting of the national government, prefectures, etc., and other relevant organizations pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "the council" below in this Article and Article 66), in order to ensure the development of a coordination and cooperation system in implementing monitoring and guidance.
When the council finds it necessary, the council may add persons other than the members of the council who are persons found to be necessary by the council and prefectures, etc. as members.
The members of the council must respect the results of discussions concerning the matters agreed upon at the council meetings.
協議会において協議が調つた事項については、協議会の構成員は、その協議の結果を尊重しなければならない。
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding three paragraphs, the matters necessary for operating the council are decided by the council.
第二十二条
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister are to establish guidelines concerning the monitoring and guidance to be implemented by the national government and prefectures, etc. (referred to below as the "guidelines").
The guidelines are to specify the following matters:
指針は、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。
basic direction on the implementation of monitoring and guidance;
監視指導の実施に関する基本的な方向
matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented;
重点的に監視指導を実施すべき項目に関する事項
matters concerning the system for implementing monitoring and guidance;
監視指導の実施体制に関する事項
matters concerning ensuring of coordination and cooperation between the national government, prefectures, etc., and other relevant organizations in implementing monitoring and guidance; and
other important matters concerning the implementation of monitoring and guidance.
その他監視指導の実施に関する重要事項
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister have established or amended the guidelines, they must publicize that fact and notify prefectural governors, etc. of that fact without delay.
第二十三条
Each fiscal year, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish a plan on the monitoring and guidance to be implemented by the national government concerning the following fiscal year's import of food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages (referred to below as the "imported food monitoring and guidance plan"), based on the guidelines.
The imported food monitoring and guidance plan is to specify the following matters:
輸入食品監視指導計画は、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。
matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented, in view of the circumstances at the production site and other circumstances;
生産地の事情その他の事情からみて重点的に監視指導を実施すべき項目に関する事項
matters concerning guidance of the implementation of voluntary sanitation management for a business operator engaged in import; and
輸入を行う営業者に対する自主的な衛生管理の実施に係る指導に関する事項
other necessary matters for implementing monitoring and guidance.
その他監視指導の実施のために必要な事項
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has established or amended the imported food monitoring and guidance plan, the Minister is to publicize that fact without delay.
厚生労働大臣は、輸入食品監視指導計画を定め、又はこれを変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表するものとする。
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to publicize the implementation status of the imported food monitoring and guidance plan.
厚生労働大臣は、輸入食品監視指導計画の実施の状況について、公表するものとする。
第二十四条
Each fiscal year, the prefectural governor, etc. must establish a plan concerning the following fiscal year's monitoring and guidance to be implemented by that prefecture, etc. (referred to below as "prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation"), based on the guidelines.
A prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation is to specify the following matters:
都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画は、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。
matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented;
重点的に監視指導を実施すべき項目に関する事項
matters concerning guidance on the implementation of voluntary sanitation management for food business operators;
食品等事業者に対する自主的な衛生管理の実施に係る指導に関する事項
matters concerning the ensuring of coordination and cooperation with the national government, other prefectures, etc., and other relevant organizations in implementing monitoring and guidance; and
other necessary matters for implementing monitoring and guidance.
その他監視指導の実施のために必要な事項
A prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation must be established by taking into account the situation of establishment of facilities by food business operators in the areas of that prefecture, etc., the status of occurrence of food sanitation hazards, and other actual circumstances of the regions.
都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画は、当該都道府県等の区域における食品等事業者の施設の設置の状況、食品衛生上の危害の発生の状況その他の地域の実情を勘案して定められなければならない。
When a prefectural governor, etc. has established or amended the prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation, the prefectural governor, etc. must publicize that fact and report that fact to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister, without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order.
都道府県知事等は、都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画を定め、又はこれを変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表するとともに、厚生労働省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣及び内閣総理大臣に報告しなければならない。
The prefectural governor, etc. must publicize the implementation status of the prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order.
都道府県知事等は、都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画の実施の状況について、厚生労働省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、公表しなければならない。
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 business operator
「食品等事業者」
A person or corporation that collects, produces, imports, processes, cooks, stores, transports or sells food or additives, or makes, imports or sells apparatus or containers and packages, as a business, or that continuously provides food to many or unspecified people at a school, hospital or other facility.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (1)
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
food sanitation
「食品衛生」
Hygiene in eating and drinking, as it concerns food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (6)· 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
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)
monitoring and guidance
「監視指導」
The monitoring or guidance concerning food sanitation that the national government and prefectures, etc. carry out, which Article 21-2 requires them to coordinate so that it is done comprehensively and promptly.
Short name set inArticle 21-2, paragraph (1)
persons poisoned by food, etc.
「食中毒患者等」
A person poisoned by food, additives, apparatus or containers and packages, or a person suspected of having been.
Short name set inArticle 21-2, paragraph (1)
the council
「協議会」
The wide-area cooperation council (広域連携協議会) the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may set up under Article 21-3, made up of the national government, prefectures, etc. and other bodies concerned, to build a system for working together on monitoring and guidance (監視指導).
Short name set inArticle 21-3, paragraph (1)· applies only in this article and in Article 66
guidelines
「指針」
The guidelines the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister set under Article 22 for the monitoring and guidance (監視指導) the national government and prefectures, etc. carry out, on which their yearly monitoring and guidance plans are based.
Short name set inArticle 22, paragraph (1)
imported food monitoring and guidance plan
「輸入食品監視指導計画」
The plan the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets each fiscal year, based on the guidelines (指針), for the monitoring and guidance (監視指導) the national government will carry out on imports of food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages in the following fiscal year.
Short name set inArticle 23, paragraph (1)
prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitationmachine translation
「都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画」
The plan a prefectural governor, etc. (都道府県知事等) sets each fiscal year, based on the guidelines (指針), for the monitoring and guidance (監視指導) their prefecture, city or special ward will carry out in the following fiscal year.
Short name set inArticle 24, 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.