# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十条 (Article 10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10. Every law, and how to address a provision: https://japanlaw.org/llms.txt. The same laws as MCP tools (no sign-in): https://japanlaw.org/mcp. - Law: 食品衛生法 (Food Sanitation Act), 昭和二十二年法律第二百三十三号 - English title "Food Sanitation Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第十条 (Article 10) — address `art-10` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十条 art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10 **第一項** 第一号若しくは第三号に掲げる疾病にかかり、若しくはその疑いがあり、第一号若しくは第三号に掲げる異常があり、又はへい死した獣畜（と畜場法（昭和二十八年法律第百十四号）第三条第一項に規定する獣畜及び厚生労働省令で定めるその他の物をいう。以下同じ。）の肉、骨、乳、臓器及び血液又は第二号若しくは第三号に掲げる疾病にかかり、若しくはその疑いがあり、第二号若しくは第三号に掲げる異常があり、又はへい死した家きん（食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律（平成二年法律第七十号）第二条第一号に規定する食鳥及び厚生労働省令で定めるその他の物をいう。以下同じ。）の肉、骨及び臓器は、厚生労働省令で定める場合を除き、これを食品として販売し、又は食品として販売の用に供するために、採取し、加工し、使用し、調理し、貯蔵し、若しくは陳列してはならない。ただし、へい死した獣畜又は家きんの肉、骨及び臓器であつて、当該職員が、人の健康を損なうおそれがなく飲食に適すると認めたものは、この限りでない。 art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1 The meat, bones, milk, organs, and blood of livestock (meaning livestock defined in Article 3, paragraph (1) of the Slaughterhouse Act (Act No. 114 of 1953) and other animals specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies below) that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in item (i) or (iii), have an abnormality stated in item (i) or (iii), or have fallen dead, or the meat, bones, and organs of poultry (meaning poultry defined in Article 2, item (i) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act (Act No. 70 of 1990) and other birds specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; the same applies below) that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in item (ii) or (iii), have an abnormality stated in item (ii) or (iii), or have fallen dead, must not be sold as food, or collected, processed, used, cooked, stored, or displayed as food for the purpose of selling, excluding cases specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare; provided, however, that this does not apply to the meat, bones, and organs of livestock or poultry that have fallen dead which the ministry's officials find unlikely to harm human health and are suitable for eating and drinking. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** と畜場法第十四条第六項各号に掲げる疾病又は異常 art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-1 disease or abnormality stated in the items of Article 14, paragraph (6) of the Slaughterhouse Act; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律第十五条第四項各号に掲げる疾病又は異常 art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-2 disease or abnormality stated in the items of Article 15, paragraph (4) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 前二号に掲げる疾病又は異常以外の疾病又は異常であつて厚生労働省令で定めるもの art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-3 disease or abnormality other than one stated in the preceding two items which are specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 獣畜の肉、乳及び臓器並びに家きんの肉及び臓器並びに厚生労働省令で定めるこれらの製品（以下この項において「獣畜の肉等」という。）は、輸出国の政府機関によつて発行され、かつ、前項各号に掲げる疾病にかかり、若しくはその疑いがあり、同項各号に掲げる異常があり、又はへい死した獣畜の肉、乳若しくは臓器若しくは家きんの肉若しくは臓器又はこれらの製品でない旨その他厚生労働省令で定める事項（以下この項において「衛生事項」という。）を記載した証明書又はその写しを添付したものでなければ、これを食品として販売の用に供するために輸入してはならない。ただし、厚生労働省令で定める国から輸入する獣畜の肉等であつて、当該獣畜の肉等に係る衛生事項が当該国の政府機関から電気通信回線を通じて、厚生労働省の使用に係る電子計算機（入出力装置を含む。）に送信され、当該電子計算機に備えられたファイルに記録されたものについては、この限りでない。 art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-2 The meat, milk, and organs of livestock, and the meat and organs of poultry, and their products specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "livestock meat, etc." below in this paragraph) must not be imported as food for the purpose of selling, unless they are attached with a certificate issued by a governmental organization of an exporting country or its copy stating that they are not the meat, milk, or organs of livestock, or the meat or organs of poultry, or their products that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in each item of the preceding paragraph, have an abnormality stated in each item of that paragraph, or have fallen dead, and stating other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "matters on sanitation" below in this paragraph); provided, however, that this does not apply to livestock meat, etc. imported from a country specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the matters on sanitation for the livestock meat, etc. have been sent from a governmental organization of the country via a telecommunications line to a computer used by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (including an input and output device) and have been recorded in a file stored on the computer. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The meat, milk, and organs of livestock, and the meat and organs of poultry, and their products specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "livestock meat, etc." below in this paragraph) must not be imported as food for the purpose of selling, unless they are attached with a certificate issued by a governmental organization of an exporting country or its copy stating that they are not the meat, milk, or organs of livestock, or the meat or organs of poultry, or their products that have contracted or are suspected to have contracted a disease stated in each item of the preceding paragraph, have an abnormality stated in each item of that paragraph, or have fallen dead, and state other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (referred to as "matters on sanitation" below in this paragraph); provided, however, that this does not apply to livestock meat, etc. imported from a country specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and the matters on sanitation for the livestock meat, etc. have been sent from a governmental organization of the country via a telecommunications line to a computer used by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (including an input and output device) and have been recorded in a file stored on the computer." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## Cites - art-10/par-1: 第一号 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項第一号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-10/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-1 - art-10/par-1: 第三号 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項第三号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (iii)), art-10/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-3 - art-10/par-1: と畜場法（昭和二十八年法律第百十四号）第三条第一項 → e-Gov law 328AC0000000114, 第三条第一項 (Article 3, paragraph (1)), art-3/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-10/par-1: 第二号 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項第二号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-10/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-2 - art-10/par-1: 食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律（平成二年法律第七十号）第二条第一号 → e-Gov law 402AC0000000070, 第二条第一項第一号 (Article 2, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-2/par-1/item-1 — not held in this collection - art-10/par-1/item-2: 食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律第十五条第四項 → e-Gov law 402AC0000000070, 第十五条第四項 (Article 15, paragraph (4)), art-15/par-4 — not held in this collection - art-10/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項第一号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-10/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-1 - art-10/par-1/item-3: 前二号 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項第二号 (Article 10, paragraph (1), item (ii)), art-10/par-1/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-2 - art-10/par-2: この項 → 食品衛生法 第十条第二項 (Article 10, paragraph (2)), art-10/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-2 - art-10/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1 ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第十条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-58/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-58/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第六十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第六十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第八十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-81/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-81/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-83/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-83/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第十条第三項第一号（国民の意見の聴取等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3/item-1 --- ## Sources - claude-opus-5-5 — Corrections to the Ministry of Justice's English of the Food Sanitation Act, written 2026-11-03 - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 食品衛生法 — the text in force from 2025-06-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/322AC0000000233/20250601_504AC0000000068), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act (食品衛生法), Article 10, paragraph (2) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Food Sanitation Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02