The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or a prefectural governor, etc. is to appoint food sanitation inspectors from among their officials to have those officials enforce the authority prescribed in Article 28, paragraph (1) and perform the duties of providing guidance on food sanitation.
A prefectural governor, etc. must have food sanitation inspectors they have appointed implement monitoring and guidance pursuant to the provisions of the prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation.
都道府県知事等は、都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画の定めるところにより、その命じた食品衛生監視員に監視指導を行わせなければならない。
The Prime Minister is to have food sanitation inspectors appointed by the Prime Minister implement monitoring and guidance related to the labeling or advertising of food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages, in accordance with the guidelines.
The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to have food sanitation inspectors appointed by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare implement monitoring and guidance related to the import of food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages, as provided for in the imported food monitoring and guidance plan.
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraphs, the qualifications of food sanitation inspectors and other necessary matters concerning food sanitation inspectors are specified by Cabinet Order.
前各項に定めるもののほか、食品衛生監視員の資格その他食品衛生監視員に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。
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
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)
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.