The Prime Minister may establish standards for apparatus, or containers and packages or their raw materials to be sold or used for business, or establish the criteria for the manufacturing method of apparatus, or containers and packages, from the viewpoint of public health, after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council.
When the standards or criteria have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the apparatus, or containers and packages that do not conform to the standards must not be sold, manufactured or imported for the purpose of selling, or used for business, raw materials that do not conform to the standards must not be used, and the apparatus, or containers and packages must not be manufactured by a method that does not conform to the criteria.
Substances (excluding substances generated by chemical change of substances) which are raw materials of materials specified by Cabinet Order taking into consideration the impact on public health of the elution or seepage of the components into food must not be used for apparatus, or containers and packages, when the quantity permitted to be contained in the apparatus, or containers and packages manufactured, or the quantity permitted to be eluted or to seep into food from apparatus, or containers and packages manufactured using those substances is not specified in the standards referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article; provided, however, that this does not apply if the apparatus, or containers and packages, are processed so that the substances do not have the risk of eluting or seeping into food at a quantity exceeding the quantity specified by the Prime Minister as unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council (excluding the case in which the substance is used for the part of the apparatus, or containers and packages which come into contact with food).
器具又は容器包装には、成分の食品への溶出又は浸出による公衆衛生に与える影響を考慮して政令で定める材質の原材料であつて、これに含まれる物質（その物質が化学的に変化して生成した物質を除く。）について、当該原材料を使用して製造される器具若しくは容器包装に含有されることが許容される量又は当該原材料を使用して製造される器具若しくは容器包装から溶出し、若しくは浸出して食品に混和することが許容される量が第一項の規格に定められていないものは、使用してはならない。ただし、当該物質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溶出し、又は浸出して食品に混和するおそれがないように器具又は容器包装が加工されている場合（当該物質が器具又は容器包装の食品に接触する部分に使用される場合を除く。）については、この限りでない。
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
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
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.