The national government, prefectures, cities specified by Cabinet Order based on the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Community Health Act (Act No. 101 of 1947) (referred to below as "cities with public health centers") and special wards must take the necessary measures to disseminate the correct knowledge concerning food sanitation through educational and PR activities, collect, consolidate, analyze, and provide information on food sanitation, promote research on food sanitation, enhance capabilities on inspection of food sanitation, and develop human resources to be involved in the improvement of food sanitation, and enhance their capabilities.
国、都道府県、地域保健法（昭和二十二年法律第百一号）第五条第一項の規定に基づく政令で定める市（以下「保健所を設置する市」という。）及び特別区は、教育活動及び広報活動を通じた食品衛生に関する正しい知識の普及、食品衛生に関する情報の収集、整理、分析及び提供、食品衛生に関する研究の推進、食品衛生に関する検査の能力の向上並びに食品衛生の向上にかかわる人材の養成及び資質の向上を図るために必要な措置を講じなければならない。
The national government, prefectures, cities with public health centers, and special wards, must coordinate closely with each other so that measures concerning food sanitation are implemented comprehensively and promptly.
The national government is to develop a system for collecting, consolidating, analyzing, and providing information on food sanitation, conducting research, and making inspections for food sanitation on imported food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages, take necessary measures to ensure international cooperation, and provide prefectures, cities with public health centers and special wards (referred to below as "prefectures, etc.") with the technical assistance necessary for them to pursue their responsibilities referred to in the preceding two paragraphs.
cities with public health centers
「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.
Short name set inArticle 2, paragraph (1)
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
「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
special ward
特別区
A ward (区) of a metropolis (都) (Local Autonomy Act, Article 281, paragraph (1)). Today the only special wards are the 23 wards of Tokyo. A special ward is a basic local government in its own right: it does, in general, the work a city, town or village (市町村) does elsewhere, apart from what the metropolis does across all the wards as one (Article 281-2, paragraph (2)). Where a law or order gives a city (市) work to do, its provisions on that work also apply to a special ward, for the work the ward does (Article 281, paragraph (2), and Article 283, paragraph (2)); a Cabinet Order (政令) can make special rules where they cannot apply as they stand (Article 283, paragraph (3)).
Written by AI using Local Autonomy Act, Arts. 281, 281-2, 283 as a reference.