①A business operator that produces or processes dairy products, additives specified by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, or other food or additives that require sanitary consideration in particular in the process of production or processing, which are specified by Cabinet Order, must have a full-time food sanitation supervisor for each facility to supervise the production or processing in a sanitary manner; provided, however, that this does not apply to facilities which the business operator personally supervises as a food sanitation supervisor.

②If a business operator conducts production or processing business that requires having a full-time food sanitation supervisor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph at two or more facilities, and those facilities are adjacent to each other, it is sufficient to have one food sanitation supervisor for those two or more facilities, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph.

③A food sanitation supervisor must supervise persons who are engaged in the production or processing of food or additives at the facility to prevent violations of this Act, or orders or dispositions based on this Act concerning the food or additives that the food sanitation supervisor supervises.

④Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, a food sanitation supervisor must pay necessary attention to sanitation management method at the facility and other matters concerning food sanitation, in order to prevent violations of this Act or orders or dispositions based on this Act and prevent food sanitation hazards concerning the food or additives the food sanitation supervisor manages at the facility, and express necessary opinions to a business operator.

⑤When a food sanitation supervisor has been placed at a facility, a business operator must respect the opinions of the food sanitation supervisor expressed under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

⑥Only persons falling under any of the following items may become a food sanitation supervisor:

⑦A person who possesses the qualifications of a food sanitation supervisor because the person falls under item (iv) of the preceding paragraph may become a food sanitation supervisor only at a facility for the same type of production business or processing business as the business for which the person has been engaged in sanitation management work for three years or more.

⑧When a business operator prescribed in paragraph (1) has placed a food sanitation supervisor or has become a food sanitation supervisor themselves at their facility, they must notify the prefectural governor that has jurisdiction over the locality of the facility of the name of the food sanitation supervisor or the fact that the business operator themselves have become a food sanitation supervisor and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within 15 days. The same applies when the business operator has changed the food sanitation supervisor.

Necessary matters concerning registration of training facilities referred to in paragraph (6), item (iii) of the preceding Article or registration of training sessions referred to in item (iv) of that paragraph are specified by Cabinet Order, and the subjects to be taken and other necessary matters concerning courses at training facilities referred to in item (iii) of that paragraph and courses for training sessions referred to in item (iv) of that paragraph are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may establish the necessary criteria concerning measures to prevent toxic or harmful substances from getting mixed into the food or additives in the process of the production or processing of food or additives.

②When criteria have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a business operator (excluding poultry slaughterers prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act) must comply with the criteria.

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish criteria for the following matters related to the sanitary management of facilities for business (excluding businesses that manufacture apparatus, or containers and packages and businesses of poultry slaughtering defined in Article 2, item (v) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act (referred to as "poultry slaughtering businesses" in Article 54 and Article 57, paragraph (1))) and other necessary measures for public health (referred to as "measures necessary for public health" below in this Article) under Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:

②A business operator must establish the necessary measures for public health in compliance with the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and comply with those measures.

③The prefectural governor, etc. may establish necessary provisions on necessary measures for public health by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance, provided that the provisions do not violate the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).

①The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish criteria for the following matters related to the sanitary management of facilities for business that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages, and other necessary measures for public health (referred to as "measures necessary for public health" below in this Article) under Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:

②A business operator that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages must take necessary measures for public health in compliance with the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (for a business operator that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages made only from raw materials of materials other than those specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3), limited to the matters stated in item (i) of the preceding paragraph).

③The prefectural governor, etc. may establish necessary provisions on necessary measures for public health by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance, provided that the provisions do not violate the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1).