# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二十九条 (Article 29) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-29. 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: 第二十九条 (Article 29) — address `art-29` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-29 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29 - 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. --- ### 第二十九条 art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-29 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29 **第一項** 国及び都道府県は、第二十五条第一項又は第二十六条第一項から第三項までの検査（以下「製品検査」という。）及び前条第一項の規定により収去した食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装の試験に関する事務を行わせるために、必要な検査施設を設けなければならない。 art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29/par-1 The national government and prefectures must establish necessary facilities for inspections to conduct the affairs concerning the inspections referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1) or Article 26, paragraphs (1) through (3) (referred to below as "product inspections") and the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The national government and prefectures must establish necessary facilities for inspections to have a registered conformity assessment body conduct the affairs concerning the inspections referred to in Article 25, paragraph (1) or Article 26, paragraphs (1) through (3) (referred to below as "product inspections") and the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 保健所を設置する市及び特別区は、前条第一項の規定により収去した食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装の試験に関する事務を行わせるために、必要な検査施設を設けなければならない。 art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29/par-2 Cities with public health centers and special wards must establish necessary facilities for inspections to conduct the affairs concerning the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Cities with public health centers and special wards must establish necessary facilities for inspections to have a registered conformity assessment body conduct the affairs concerning the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of the preceding Article." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第三項** 都道府県等の食品衛生検査施設に関し必要な事項は、政令で定める。 art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-29/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29/par-3 The necessary matters for food sanitation inspection facilities of prefectures, etc. are specified by Cabinet Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-29/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-25/par-1 - art-29/par-1: 第二十六条第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項 (Article 26, paragraph (1)), art-26/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1 - art-29/par-1: 第二十六条第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第二十六条第二項 (Article 26, paragraph (2)), art-26/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-2 - art-29/par-1: 第二十六条第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第二十六条第三項 (Article 26, paragraph (3)), art-26/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-3 - art-29/par-1: 前条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 - art-29/par-2: 前条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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 29, 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 29, paragraph (2) — 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