When things that have not been generally served for human consumption and have not been proved to be unlikely to harm human health, or things that include them are newly sold as food or come to be sold as food, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may prohibit those things to be sold as food, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council, when the Minister finds it necessary for preventing the occurrence of food sanitation hazards.
厚生労働大臣は、一般に飲食に供されることがなかつた物であつて人の健康を損なうおそれがない旨の確証がないもの又はこれを含む物が新たに食品として販売され、又は販売されることとなつた場合において、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、それらの物を食品として販売することを禁止することができる。
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that there is no positive proof that the things that have been generally served for human consumption and are served in a method significantly different from the normal method for those things are unlikely to harm human health and that it is necessary for preventing the occurrence of food sanitation hazards, the Minister may prohibit those things to be sold as food, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council.
厚生労働大臣は、一般に食品として飲食に供されている物であつて当該物の通常の方法と著しく異なる方法により飲食に供されているものについて、人の健康を損なうおそれがない旨の確証がなく、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、その物を食品として販売することを禁止することができる。
When serious damage to human health suspected to have been caused by food has occurred, and it is suspected that the food contains things that have not been generally served for human consumption and are likely to cause harm from the conditions of the damage, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may prohibit the sale of the food, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council, when the Minister finds it necessary for preventing the occurrence of food sanitation hazards.
厚生労働大臣は、食品によるものと疑われる人の健康に係る重大な被害が生じた場合において、当該被害の態様からみて当該食品に当該被害を生ずるおそれのある一般に飲食に供されることがなかつた物が含まれていることが疑われる場合において、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、その食品を販売することを禁止することができる。
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has made a prohibition of sales under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs and finds that there is no likelihood of food sanitation hazards caused by things or food related to the prohibition to occur based on the application from a person having an interest in the prohibition, or as required, the Minister is to revoke the prohibition in whole or in part, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has made a prohibition of sales under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), or has revoked the prohibition under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister is to issue public notice in an Official Gazette to that effect.
厚生労働大臣は、第一項から第三項までの規定による販売の禁止をしたとき、又は前項の規定による禁止の全部若しくは一部の解除をしたときは、官報で告示するものとする。
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「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