# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第三条 (Article 3) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3. 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: 第三条 (Article 3) — address `art-3` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3 - 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. --- ### 第三条 art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3 **第一項** 食品等事業者（食品若しくは添加物を採取し、製造し、輸入し、加工し、調理し、貯蔵し、運搬し、若しくは販売すること若しくは器具若しくは容器包装を製造し、輸入し、若しくは販売することを営む人若しくは法人又は学校、病院その他の施設において継続的に不特定若しくは多数の者に食品を供与する人若しくは法人をいう。以下同じ。）は、その採取し、製造し、輸入し、加工し、調理し、貯蔵し、運搬し、販売し、不特定若しくは多数の者に授与し、又は営業上使用する食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装（以下「販売食品等」という。）について、自らの責任においてそれらの安全性を確保するため、販売食品等の安全性の確保に係る知識及び技術の習得、販売食品等の原材料の安全性の確保、販売食品等の自主検査の実施その他の必要な措置を講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3/par-1 A food business operator (meaning a person or corporation that is engaged in collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting, or selling food or additives, or manufacturing, importing, or selling apparatus, or containers and packages, or a person or corporation that continuously provides food to a large number of persons or unspecified persons at schools, hospitals, or other facilities; the same applies below) must endeavor to ensure the safety of the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that they collect, produce, import, process, cook, store, transport, sell, provide to a large number of persons or unspecified persons, or use for business (referred to below as "food for sale, etc.") on their own responsibility, and endeavor to obtain the knowledge and skills for ensuring the safety of food for sale, etc., ensure the safety of raw materials of food for sale, etc., conduct voluntary inspections of food for sale, etc., and take other necessary measures. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A food business operator (meaning a person or corporation that is engaged in collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting, or selling food or additives, or manufacturing, importing, or selling apparatus, or containers and packages, or a person or corporation that continuously provides food to a large number of persons or unspecified persons at schools, hospitals, or other facilities; the same applies below) must endeavor to ensure the safety of the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that they collect, produce, import, process, cook, store, transport, sell, provide to a large number of persons or unspecified persons, or use for business (referred to below as "food for sale, etc.") on their own responsibility, and endeavor to obtain the knowledge and skills for ensuring the safety of food for sale, etc., ensuring the safety of raw materials of food for sale, etc., conducting voluntary inspections of food for sale, etc., and take other necessary measures." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 食品等事業者は、販売食品等に起因する食品衛生上の危害の発生の防止に必要な限度において、当該食品等事業者に対して販売食品等又はその原材料の販売を行つた者の名称その他必要な情報に関する記録を作成し、これを保存するよう努めなければならない。 art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3/par-2 A food business operator must endeavor to make a record of necessary information such as the name of the person who has sold food for sale, etc. or raw materials of food for sale, etc. to the food business operator and preserve the record, to the extent necessary for preventing food sanitation hazards resulting from food for sale, etc. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 食品等事業者は、販売食品等に起因する食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため、前項に規定する記録の国、都道府県等への提供、食品衛生上の危害の原因となつた販売食品等の廃棄その他の必要な措置を適確かつ迅速に講ずるよう努めなければならない。 art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3/par-3 In order to prevent food sanitation hazards resulting from food for sale, etc., a food business operator must endeavor to appropriately and promptly take necessary measures such as providing the record prescribed in the preceding paragraph to the national government or prefectures, etc. and disposing of the food for sale, etc. that caused the food sanitation hazards. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-3/par-3: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第三条第二項 (Article 3, paragraph (2)), art-3/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-3/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-3/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 3, 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