A prefecture, etc. is to endeavor to provide necessary advice, guidance, and other assistance to food business operators, in order to prevent the occurrence of food poisoning and improve food sanitation in the region.
A prefecture, etc. may appoint a food sanitation promoter from among the persons who have public reputation, and have enthusiasm, knowledge and experience for improving food sanitation, in order to promote voluntary activities by food business operators concerning the improvement of food sanitation.
A food sanitation promoter is to cooperate in the policy measures of prefectures, etc., respond to requests for consultation from food business operators, and give advice to them concerning sanitation management method of facilities for restaurant business and other matters concerning food sanitation.
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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 business operator
「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.
Defined inArticle 3, paragraph (1)
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