# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二十一条の二 (Article 21-2) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-21-2. 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: 第二十一条の二 (Article 21-2) — address `art-21-2` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-21-2 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-21-2 - 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. 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. --- ### 第二十一条の二 art-21-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-21-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-21-2 **第一項** 国及び都道府県等は、食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装に起因する中毒患者又はその疑いのある者（以下「食中毒患者等」という。）の広域にわたる発生又はその拡大を防止し、及び広域にわたり流通する食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装に関してこの法律又はこの法律に基づく命令若しくは処分に係る違反を防止するため、その行う食品衛生に関する監視又は指導（以下「監視指導」という。）が総合的かつ迅速に実施されるよう、相互に連携を図りながら協力しなければならない。 art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-21-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-21-2/par-1 The national government and prefectures, etc. must work together in cooperation with each other to ensure that the monitoring or guidance concerning food sanitation (referred to below as "monitoring and guidance") will be comprehensively and promptly conducted, in order to prevent persons poisoned by food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages or persons suspected of being poisoned by them (referred to below as "patients with food poisoning, etc.") from spreading or increasing across wide areas, and prevent violations of this Act, or orders or dispositions based on this Act, concerning food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that are distributed over wide areas. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The national government and prefectures, etc. must work together in cooperation with each other to ensure that the monitoring or guidance concerning food sanitation (referred to below as "monitoring and guidance") will be comprehensively and promptly conducted, in order to prevent persons poisoned by food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages or persons suspected of being poisoned by them (referred to below as "persons poisoned by food, etc.") from spreading or increasing across wide areas, and prevent violations of this Act, or orders or dispositions based on this Act, concerning food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that are distributed over wide areas." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## 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 21-2, 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