# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二条 (Article 2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2. 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: 第二条 (Article 2) — address `art-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第二条 art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2 **第一項** 国、都道府県、地域保健法（昭和二十二年法律第百一号）第五条第一項の規定に基づく政令で定める市（以下「保健所を設置する市」という。）及び特別区は、教育活動及び広報活動を通じた食品衛生に関する正しい知識の普及、食品衛生に関する情報の収集、整理、分析及び提供、食品衛生に関する研究の推進、食品衛生に関する検査の能力の向上並びに食品衛生の向上にかかわる人材の養成及び資質の向上を図るために必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2/par-1 The national government, prefectures, cities specified by Cabinet Order based on the provisions of Article 5, paragraph (1) of the Community Health Act (Act No. 101 of 1947) (referred to below as "cities with public health centers") and special wards must take the necessary measures to disseminate the correct knowledge concerning food sanitation through educational and PR activities, collect, consolidate, analyze, and provide information on food sanitation, promote research on food sanitation, enhance capabilities on inspection of food sanitation, and develop human resources to be involved in the improvement of food sanitation, and enhance their capabilities. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 国、都道府県、保健所を設置する市及び特別区は、食品衛生に関する施策が総合的かつ迅速に実施されるよう、相互に連携を図らなければならない。 art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2/par-2 The national government, prefectures, cities with public health centers, and special wards, must coordinate closely with each other so that measures concerning food sanitation are implemented comprehensively and promptly. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 国は、食品衛生に関する情報の収集、整理、分析及び提供並びに研究並びに輸入される食品、添加物、器具及び容器包装についての食品衛生に関する検査の実施を図るための体制を整備し、国際的な連携を確保するために必要な措置を講ずるとともに、都道府県、保健所を設置する市及び特別区（以下「都道府県等」という。）に対し前二項の責務が十分に果たされるように必要な技術的援助を与えるものとする。 art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2/par-3 The national government is to develop a system for collecting, consolidating, analyzing, and providing information on food sanitation, conducting research, and making inspections for food sanitation on imported food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages, take necessary measures to ensure international cooperation, and provide prefectures, cities with public health centers and special wards (referred to below as "prefectures, etc.") with the technical assistance necessary for them to pursue their responsibilities referred to in the preceding two paragraphs. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-2/par-1: 地域保健法（昭和二十二年法律第百一号）第五条第一項 → e-Gov law 322AC0000000101, 第五条第一項 (Article 5, paragraph (1)), art-5/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-2/par-3: 前二項 → 食品衛生法 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2/par-1 - art-2/par-3: 前二項 → 食品衛生法 第二条第二項 (Article 2, paragraph (2)), art-2/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2/par-2 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-2/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-2/par-3 - 食品衛生法 附則第二条第一項（既存添加物に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4071-101/art-2/par-1 --- ## Sources - 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 — 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