Food Sanitation Act
食品衛生法
Every term this law . Its definitions bind only this law — each entry says where the definition applies and links to the sentence that settles it. 77 terms: 36 with the Ministry of Justice's English, 41 in our translation, marked as such.
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.
全ての飲食物
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.
食品の製造の過程において又は食品の加工若しくは保存の目的で、食品に添加、混和、浸潤その他の方法によつて使用する物
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.
飲食器、割ぽう具その他食品又は添加物の採取、製造、加工、調理、貯蔵、運搬、陳列、授受又は摂取の用に供され、かつ、食品又は添加物に直接接触する機械、器具その他の物
Anything that holds or wraps food or additives and is handed over with them, as it is, when the food or additives change hands.
食品又は添加物を入れ、又は包んでいる物で、食品又は添加物を授受する場合そのままで引き渡すもの
A corporation registered by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 33, paragraph (1) as a body that carries out product inspections (製品検査).
第三十三条第一項の規定により厚生労働大臣の登録を受けた法人
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)).
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.
業として、食品若しくは添加物を採取し、製造し、輸入し、加工し、調理し、貯蔵し、運搬し、若しくは販売すること又は器具若しくは容器包装を製造し、輸入し、若しくは販売すること
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.
営業を営む人又は法人
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).
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.
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).
食品衛生
Hygiene in eating and drinking, as it concerns food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages.
食品、添加物、器具及び容器包装を対象とする飲食に関する衛生
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.
既存添加物名簿
The list of additives that the Minister of Health and Welfare (厚生大臣) had to draw up and publish within three months of the day Act No. 101 of 1995 was officially published (公布), naming the additives then on sale or made, imported, processed, used, stored or displayed for sale, alone or in preparations or food, other than the synthetic chemical additives Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act covered before Act No. 101 of 1995 amended it and the natural flavoring agents and substances generally eaten as food but used as additives that Article 2, paragraph (3) covered as amended.
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.
食品若しくは添加物を採取し、製造し、輸入し、加工し、調理し、貯蔵し、運搬し、若しくは販売すること若しくは器具若しくは容器包装を製造し、輸入し、若しくは販売することを営む人若しくは法人又は学校、病院その他の施設において継続的に不特定若しくは多数の者に食品を供与する人若しくは法人
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.
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.
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.
新食品衛生法
The Food Sanitation Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 55 of 2003.
A person poisoned by food, additives, apparatus or containers and packages, or a person suspected of having been.
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).
In Article 33, paragraph (1), a person who has applied under Article 31 to be registered as a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関), whom the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare must register if it meets every requirement on equipment and staff, on measures to keep product inspections reliable, and on not being controlled by the business operators whose products it inspects.
In Article 33, paragraph (1), item (iii) and Article 39, paragraph (2), a business operator that sells, makes, imports, processes or displays for sale, or uses in its business, food, additives, apparatus or containers and packages that must undergo product inspections (製品検査) under Article 25, paragraph (1) or Article 26, paragraphs (1) to (3).
The rules on carrying out product inspections (製品検査) that a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) must set and have approved by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare before it starts that work, and again whenever it changes them.
A list the Prime Minister may draw up under Article 2-3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 101 of 1995 of additives on the list of existing additives (既存添加物名簿) that, with the preparations and food containing them, are no longer sold, so that their names can then be deleted from that list.
食品安全委員会
The Food Safety Commission set up in the Cabinet Office (内閣府) under Article 22 of the Food Safety Basic Act, as Articles 1 and 10 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 55 of 2003 name it.
新食品衛生法
The Food Sanitation Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 46 of 2018, leaving aside the amendments listed in Article 1, item (ii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2018.
第三号新食品衛生法
The Food Sanitation Act as amended by Article 2 of Act No. 46 of 2018, which came into effect on 1 June 2021, the date set for the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2018.
1 June 2021, the date Article 2 of Act No. 46 of 2018 came into effect, as one of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2018.
An additive used to flavor food that is obtained from animals or plants, or is a mixture of such substances.
動植物から得られた物又はその混合物で、食品の着香の目的で使用される添加物
An ingredient or substance needing special care to prevent food sanitation hazards, which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister designate after hearing the Food Safety Standards Council (食品衛生基準審議会).
The inventory of property, balance sheet, profit and loss or income and expenditure statement, and business report (including electronic or magnetic records made in their place) that a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) must prepare within three months after each business year ends and keep at its office for five years (Article 39, paragraph (1)).
第一号法定受託事務
Work classed as type 1 statutory entrusted functions under Article 2, paragraph (9), item (i) of the Local Autonomy Act; where a local government head other than a prefectural governor makes a disposition (処分) in such work under this Act, a person dissatisfied with the ruling on a request for review (審査請求) may request re-examination (再審査請求) from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, or from the Prime Minister for a disposition under Article 59, paragraph (2) (Article 78).
The Food Sanitation Act as it stood before Article 2 of Act No. 55 of 2003 amended it.
The Acts amended by Act No. 49 of 2009, the amending law these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, as they stand after that amendment, together with the orders made under them.
The Acts amended by Act No. 49 of 2009, the amending law these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, as they stood before that amendment, together with the orders made under them.
The date Act No. 46 of 2018, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 36 of 2023, the 2023 Act that rearranged related laws to strengthen public health and sanitation administration, the Acts it amended as they stand after that amendment, together with the orders made under them.
In Articles 2 and 3 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 36 of 2023, the 2023 Act that rearranged related laws to strengthen public health and sanitation administration, the Acts it amended as they stood before that amendment, together with the orders made under them.
販売食品等
The food, additives, apparatus and containers and packages that a food business operator (食品等事業者) collects, produces, imports, processes, cooks, stores, transports, sells, hands out to many or unspecified people, or uses in its business, whose safety Article 3 asks it to ensure on its own responsibility.
A record made in electronic, magnetic or any other form people cannot perceive directly, for use in computer processing.
電子的方式、磁気的方式その他の人の知覚によつては認識することができない方式で作られる記録であつて、電子計算機による情報処理の用に供されるもの
公衆衛生上必要な措置
In Article 51, the sanitary management of business facilities and the other measures needed for public health, for which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets standards by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) on general hygiene, such as keeping premises clean and getting rid of rats and insects, and on controlling the steps most important to preventing food sanitation hazards; it covers every business except making apparatus or containers and packages and poultry slaughtering businesses.
A poultry slaughtering business as defined in Article 2, item (v) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act, which Articles 51, 54 and 57, paragraph (1) leave out of the businesses they cover.
公衆衛生上必要な措置
In Article 52, the sanitary management of the facilities of a business that makes apparatus or containers and packages and the other measures needed for public health, for which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare sets standards by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) on general hygiene and on properly controlling manufacture to prevent food sanitation hazards.
A petition, request for examination, objection or other administrative appeal filed under the old appeal system.
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 101 of 1995 amended it.
Livestock as defined in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Slaughterhouse Act — cattle, horses, pigs, sheep and goats — together with the other animals an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) names.
と畜場法（昭和二十八年法律第百十四号）第三条第一項に規定する獣畜及び厚生労働省令で定めるその他の物
In Article 13, paragraph (3) and Article 14, an agricultural chemical as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Act: a fungicide, insecticide, herbicide or other agent used to control pests and diseases of crops, or a growth promoter, germination inhibitor or other agent used to boost or check their physiological functions, fertilizers excepted.
農薬取締法（昭和二十三年法律第八十二号）第二条第一項に規定する農薬
In Article 40, the testing of food, additives, apparatus or containers and packages taken away for testing under Article 28, paragraph (1), which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister or a prefectural governor, etc. entrusts to a registered conformity assessment body (登録検査機関) under Article 28, paragraph (4).
In Article 56, a person who has obtained the prefectural governor's permission under Article 55, paragraph (1) to run a business of a kind Article 54 covers; their status passes to whoever takes the business over by transfer, inheritance, merger or company split.
指定都市
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
A ruling, decision or other disposition on an administrative appeal.
The date Act No. 101 of 1995, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
In the supplementary provisions of Act No. 87 of 1999, work of the State, of another local government or of another public body that an organ of a local government managed or carried out under an Act (法律) or a Cabinet Order (政令) before that Act comes into effect, which the local government then handles as its own affairs.
The government agency ranking above the one that made a decision, which hears administrative appeals against that decision.
販売
In Articles 2 and 4 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2018, sale as Article 5 of the Food Sanitation Act defines it, which includes handing food or additives over to many or unspecified people otherwise than by selling them.
食品衛生法第五条に規定する販売
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.
同法第四条第一項に規定する食品
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 46 of 2018 amended it.
営業
In Articles 8 and 9 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 46 of 2018, a business that Article 57, paragraph (1) of the Food Sanitation Act, as Article 2 of Act No. 46 of 2018 amended it, requires to be notified to the prefectural governor before it is started.
同項に規定する営業
営業
In Article 4, paragraph (2) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 52 of 2023, a business (営業) as defined in Article 4, paragraph (7) of the Food Sanitation Act, including the continuous provision of food to many or unspecified people at a school, hospital or other facility that Article 68, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act, as Act No. 52 of 2023 amended it, treats in the same way.
In Article 8, paragraph (1), food containing a designated ingredient, etc. (指定成分等), whose business operators must report without delay to the prefectural governor, etc. any information that it has harmed or may harm people's health.
獣畜の肉等
In Article 10, paragraph (2), the meat, milk and organs of livestock (獣畜), the meat and organs of poultry (家きん), and the products made from them that an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) names, which may be imported for sale as food only with a certificate from the exporting country's government.
In Article 10, paragraph (2), what the certificate from the exporting country's government must state: that the meat, milk, organs or products are not from livestock or poultry that had, or were suspected of having, a disease or abnormality listed in paragraph (1) or that had fallen dead, and the other matters an Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (厚生労働省令) names.
動物用再生医療等製品
In Article 14, a regenerative medicine product (再生医療等製品) as defined in Article 2, paragraph (9) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices that is meant to be used solely for animals.
In Article 14, agricultural chemicals (農薬), feed additives as defined in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Act on Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feeds, and pharmaceuticals as defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices meant to be used solely for animals, whose residues in food the Prime Minister sets limits for.
中核市
A core city under Article 252-22, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 200,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令), which may take over some of the work a prefecture otherwise does.
A designated city (指定都市) or a core city (中核市), which, under Article 77, handles the work this Act gives prefectures that a Cabinet Order (政令) names, the provisions on prefectures then applying to it.
指定都市
A designated city under Article 252-19, paragraph (1) of the Local Autonomy Act: a city with a population of 500,000 or more designated by Cabinet Order (政令).
処分等の行為
In Article 13 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 1994, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 13 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for the provisions the proviso to Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, those provisions) came into effect as done, for applying the amended laws from that day, under their corresponding provisions, except as Articles 5 to 10 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In Article 13 of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 84 of 1994, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 13 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act and still pending when it (or, for a provision named in the proviso to Article 1 of its supplementary provisions, that provision) came into effect as made, for applying the amended laws from that day, under their corresponding provisions, except as Articles 5 to 10 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 87 of 1999, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 160 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 159 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
The administrative agency that issued the decision being appealed.
処分等の行為
In the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 51 of 2014, a permission or other disposition (処分), or another act, done under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an act done under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 6 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.
申請等の行為
In Article 7, paragraph (1) of the supplementary provisions (附則) of Act No. 51 of 2014, an application for a permission or the like, or another act, made under a law's provisions. Article 7 treats such an application or act made under the laws as they stood before that Act (or, for a provision Article 1 of its supplementary provisions lists, that provision) and still pending when it came into effect, where the official who is to handle the matter changes on the day it comes into effect, as done under the corresponding provisions of the laws as that Act amended them, except as Articles 2 to 6 of its supplementary provisions or the transitional provisions of the amended laws, including orders made under them, provide otherwise.