# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十八条 (Article 18) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18. 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: 第十八条 (Article 18) — address `art-18` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十八条 art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、公衆衛生の見地から、食品衛生基準審議会の意見を聴いて、販売の用に供し、若しくは営業上使用する器具若しくは容器包装若しくはこれらの原材料につき規格を定め、又はこれらの製造方法につき基準を定めることができる。 art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-1 The Prime Minister may establish standards for apparatus, or containers and packages or their raw materials to be sold or used for business, or establish the criteria for the manufacturing method of apparatus, or containers and packages, from the viewpoint of public health, after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The Prime Minister may establish standards for apparatus, or containers and packages or their raw materials to be sold or used for business, or establish the criteria for the manufacturing method of apparatus, or containers and packages, after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により規格又は基準が定められたときは、その規格に合わない器具若しくは容器包装を販売し、販売の用に供するために製造し、若しくは輸入し、若しくは営業上使用し、その規格に合わない原材料を使用し、又はその基準に合わない方法により器具若しくは容器包装を製造してはならない。 art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-2 When the standards or criteria have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the apparatus, or containers and packages that do not conform to the standards must not be sold, manufactured or imported for the purpose of selling, or used for business, raw materials that do not conform to the standards must not be used, and the apparatus, or containers and packages must not be manufactured by a method that does not conform to the criteria. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 器具又は容器包装には、成分の食品への溶出又は浸出による公衆衛生に与える影響を考慮して政令で定める材質の原材料であつて、これに含まれる物質（その物質が化学的に変化して生成した物質を除く。）について、当該原材料を使用して製造される器具若しくは容器包装に含有されることが許容される量又は当該原材料を使用して製造される器具若しくは容器包装から溶出し、若しくは浸出して食品に混和することが許容される量が第一項の規格に定められていないものは、使用してはならない。ただし、当該物質が人の健康を損なうおそれのない量として内閣総理大臣が食品衛生基準審議会の意見を聴いて定める量を超えて溶出し、又は浸出して食品に混和するおそれがないように器具又は容器包装が加工されている場合（当該物質が器具又は容器包装の食品に接触する部分に使用される場合を除く。）については、この限りでない。 art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-3 Substances (excluding substances generated by chemical change of substances) which are raw materials of materials specified by Cabinet Order taking into consideration the impact on public health of the elution or seepage of the components into food must not be used for apparatus, or containers and packages, when the quantity permitted to be contained in the apparatus, or containers and packages manufactured, or the quantity permitted to be eluted or to seep into food from apparatus, or containers and packages manufactured using those substances is not specified in the standards referred to in paragraph (1) of this Article; provided, however, that this does not apply if the apparatus, or containers and packages, are processed so that the substances do not have the risk of eluting or seeping into food at a quantity exceeding the quantity specified by the Prime Minister as unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council (excluding the case in which the substance is used for the part of the apparatus, or containers and packages which come into contact with food). Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Substances (excluding substances generated by chemical change of substances) which are raw materials of materials specified by Cabinet Order taking into consideration the impact of the elution or seepage of the components into food must not be used for apparatus, or containers and packages, when the quantity permitted to be contained in the apparatus, or containers and packages manufactured, or the quantity permitted to be eluted or seep into food from apparatus, or containers and packages manufactured using those substances is not specified in the standards referred to in paragraph (1) of the Article; provided, however, that this does not apply if the apparatus, or containers and packages, are processed so that the substances does not have the risk of eluting or seeping into food at a quantity exceeding the quantity specified by the Prime Minister as unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council (excluding the case in which the substance is used for the part of the apparatus, or containers and packages which come into contact with food)." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## Cites - art-18/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-1 - art-18/par-3: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-1 ## Cited by 24 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第十七条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-17/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-17/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第十七条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-17/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-17/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-19/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-19/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-25/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第六号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-6 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第七号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-7 - 食品衛生法 第五十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十三条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/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 第七十条第二項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-2/item-4 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第二項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-2/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-2/item-5 - 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 附則第四条第一項（器具及び容器包装の規制に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第十一条第二項（国民の意見の聴取等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2 --- ## 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 18, 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 (食品衛生法), Article 18, paragraph (3) — 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