# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二十三条 (Article 23) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23. 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: 第二十三条 (Article 23) — address `art-23` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23 - 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. --- ### 第二十三条 art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、指針に基づき、毎年度、翌年度の食品、添加物、器具及び容器包装の輸入について国が行う監視指導の実施に関する計画（以下「輸入食品監視指導計画」という。）を定めるものとする。 art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-1 Each fiscal year, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish a plan on the monitoring and guidance to be implemented by the national government concerning the following fiscal year's import of food, additives, apparatus, and containers and packages (referred to below as the "imported food monitoring and guidance plan"), based on the guidelines. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 輸入食品監視指導計画は、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。 art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-2 The imported food monitoring and guidance plan is to specify the following matters: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 生産地の事情その他の事情からみて重点的に監視指導を実施すべき項目に関する事項 art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-2/item-1 matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented, in view of the circumstances at the production site and other circumstances; Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented, in view of the circumstances at the productions site and other circumstances;" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **二** 輸入を行う営業者に対する自主的な衛生管理の実施に係る指導に関する事項 art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-2/item-2 matters concerning guidance of the implementation of voluntary sanitation management for a business operator engaged in import; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** その他監視指導の実施のために必要な事項 art-23/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-2/item-3 other necessary matters for implementing monitoring and guidance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、輸入食品監視指導計画を定め、又はこれを変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表するものとする。 art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-3 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has established or amended the imported food monitoring and guidance plan, the Minister is to publicize that fact without delay. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、輸入食品監視指導計画の実施の状況について、公表するものとする。 art-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-23/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-23/par-4 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to publicize the implementation status of the imported food monitoring and guidance plan. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 - 厚生年金保険法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/employees-pension-insurance-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/329AC0000000115/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 - 国民年金法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/national-pension-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/334AC0000000141/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-1/item-4 - 食品衛生法 附則第七十五条第一項（厚生大臣又は都道府県知事その他の地方公共団体の機関がした事業の停止命令その他の処分に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4111-87/art-75/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4111-87/art-75/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 23, paragraph (2), item (i) — 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