# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十六条 (Article 16) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-16. 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: 第十六条 (Article 16) — address `art-16` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-16 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-16 - 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. --- ### 第十六条 art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-16 **第一項** 有毒な、若しくは有害な物質が含まれ、若しくは付着して人の健康を損なうおそれがある器具若しくは容器包装又は食品若しくは添加物に接触してこれらに有害な影響を与えることにより人の健康を損なうおそれがある器具若しくは容器包装は、これを販売し、販売の用に供するために製造し、若しくは輸入し、又は営業上使用してはならない。 art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-16/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-16/par-1 Apparatus, or containers and packages that contain toxic or harmful substances, or to which those substances are adhered and likely to harm human health, or apparatus, or containers and packages that come into contact with food or additives and are likely to harm human health due to having a harmful effect, must not be sold, manufactured or imported for the purpose of selling, or used for business. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Apparatus, or containers and packages that contain toxic or harmful substances, or to which those substances are adhered and likely to harm human health, or apparatus, or containers and packages that come into contact with food or additives and likely to harm to human health due to having a harmful effect, must not be sold, manufactured or imported for the purpose of selling, or used for business." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb ## Cited by 9 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第十七条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-17/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-17/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-5 - 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 第六十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第六十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-82/par-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 16, paragraph (1) — 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