# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第三十八条 (Article 38) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-38. 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: 第三十八条 (Article 38) — address `art-38` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-38 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-38 - 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. --- ### 第三十八条 art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-38 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-38 **第一項** 登録検査機関は、厚生労働大臣の許可を受けなければ、製品検査の業務の全部又は一部を休止し、又は廃止してはならない。 art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-38/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-38/par-1 A registered conformity assessment body must not suspend the operation of product inspections in whole or in part or abolish the operation of product inspections, without obtaining the approval of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第四十五条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-45/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-45/par-1/item-4 - 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 第八十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-86/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-86/par-1/item-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