Supplementary Provisions, Article 2Transitional Measures Concerning Existing Additives
第二条(既存添加物に関する経過措置)
The Minister of Health and Welfare must prepare a table stating the names of the following additives (excluding additives that are chemically synthesized compounds prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act prior to the amendment under the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Former Food Sanitation Act"), and natural flavoring agents prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act after the amendment under the provisions of Article 1 (hereinafter referred to as the "New Food Sanitation Act") and things that have been generally served for human consumption, and are used as additives) (hereinafter referred to as the "list of existing additives") and issue public notice of it within three months from the date of promulgation of this Act.
Additives that, at the time of promulgation of this Act, are actually being sold, or being manufactured, imported, processed, used, stored or displayed for the purpose of sale;
この法律の公布の際現に販売され、又は販売の用に供するために、製造され、輸入され、加工され、使用され、貯蔵され、若しくは陳列されている添加物
Any person who finds it necessary to correct the list of existing additives publicly notified pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph may, as provided by Ministry of Health and Welfare Order, file an application to that effect with the Minister of Health and Welfare, only within six months from the date of that public notice.
In the case where an application under the preceding paragraph has been filed and the Minister of Health and Welfare finds that the application is well-founded, the Minister of Health and Welfare must add the name of the additive pertaining to the application to the list of existing additives or delete it from the list of existing additives, and notify the person who filed the application to that effect.
The Minister of Health and Welfare must issue public notice of the list of existing additives to which additions or deletions have been made pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph no later than one month before the day on which this Act comes into effect (hereinafter referred to as the "Effective Date").
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
natural flavoring agents
「天然香料」
An additive used to flavor food that is obtained from animals or plants, or is a mixture of such substances.
Defined inArticle 4, paragraph (3)· applies throughout the law
New Food Sanitation Actmachine translation
「新食品衛生法」
This Act as amended by Article 1 of Act No. 101 of 1995.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
list of existing additivesmachine translation
「既存添加物名簿」
The list of additives that the Minister of Health and Welfare (厚生大臣) had to draw up and publish within three months of the day Act No. 101 of 1995 was officially published (公布), naming the additives then on sale or made, imported, processed, used, stored or displayed for sale, alone or in preparations or food, other than the synthetic chemical additives Article 2, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act covered before Act No. 101 of 1995 amended it and the natural flavoring agents and substances generally eaten as food but used as additives that Article 2, paragraph (3) covered as amended.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
Former Food Sanitation Actmachine translation
「旧食品衛生法」
This Act as it stood before Article 1 of Act No. 101 of 1995 amended it.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (1)
the Effective Datemachine translation
「施行日」
The date Act No. 101 of 1995, the amending Act these supplementary provisions (附則) belong to, comes into effect.
Short name set inSupplementary Provisions, Article 2, paragraph (4)