The 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.
When 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.
Food 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.
農薬（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をいう。次条において同じ。）、飼料の安全性の確保及び品質の改善に関する法律（昭和二十八年法律第三十五号）第二条第三項の規定に基づく農林水産省令で定める用途に供することを目的として飼料（同条第二項に規定する飼料をいう。）に添加、混和、浸潤その他の方法によつて用いられる物及び医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律第二条第一項に規定する医薬品であつて動物のために使用されることが目的とされているものの成分である物質（その物質が化学的に変化して生成した物質を含み、人の健康を損なうおそれのないことが明らかであるものとして内閣総理大臣が定める物質を除く。）が、人の健康を損なうおそれのない量として内閣総理大臣が食品衛生基準審議会の意見を聴いて定める量を超えて残留する食品は、これを販売の用に供するために製造し、輸入し、加工し、使用し、調理し、保存し、又は販売してはならない。ただし、当該物質の当該食品に残留する量の限度について第一項の食品の成分に係る規格が定められている場合については、この限りでない。
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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
agricultural chemicalsmachine translation
「農薬」
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.
Defined inArticle 13, paragraph (3)· applies only in this provision and in Article 14
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.