When a business operator that handles food containing ingredients or substances that require special attention from the viewpoint of preventing food sanitation hazards and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister have designated after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council (referred to as "designated ingredients, etc." in paragraph (3) and Article 70, paragraph (5)) (referred to as "food containing designated ingredients, etc." below in this paragraph) obtains information that the food containing designated ingredients, etc. handled by them causes or may cause harm to human health, they must notify a prefectural governor, a mayor of the city with public health centers or a mayor of the special ward (referred to below as the "prefectural governor, etc.") of that information without delay pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.
When a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been given, the prefectural governor, etc. must report the matters related to the notification to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare.
Physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and other relevant persons must endeavor to grasp the state of damage to human health suspected of being caused by the ingestion of designated ingredients, etc., and when the prefectural governor, etc. conducts investigation of the damage to human health suspected of being caused by the ingestion of designated ingredients, etc. to prevent food sanitation hazards, and requests necessary cooperation for the investigation, they must endeavor to provide information on the damage or other necessary cooperation, in response to the request.
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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)
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
business operator
「営業者」
A person or corporation that runs a business (営業) as this Act defines it: collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting or selling food or additives, or making, importing or selling apparatus or containers and packages, as a trade.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (8)· applies throughout the law
designated ingredients, etc.
「指定成分等」
An ingredient or substance needing special care to prevent food sanitation hazards, which the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister designate after hearing the Food Safety Standards Council (食品衛生基準審議会).
Short name set inArticle 8, paragraph (1)· applies only in this provision and in Article 8, paragraph (3); and Article 70, paragraph (5)
food containing designated ingredients, etc.
「指定成分等含有食品」
In Article 8, paragraph (1), food containing a designated ingredient, etc. (指定成分等), whose business operators must report without delay to the prefectural governor, etc. any information that it has harmed or may harm people's health.
Short name set inArticle 8, paragraph (1)· applies only in this paragraph
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)
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.
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.