# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第四十条 (Article 40) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40. 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: 第四十条 (Article 40) — address `art-40` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40 - 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. --- ### 第四十条 art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40 **第一項** 登録検査機関の役員若しくは職員又はこれらの職にあつた者は、その製品検査の業務又は第二十八条第四項の規定により委託を受けた事務（次項において「委託事務」という。）に関して知り得た秘密を漏らしてはならない。 art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40/par-1 Officers or employees of a registered conformity assessment body or persons who formerly held those positions must not divulge any secret concerning the operation of product inspections, or affairs entrusted to them pursuant to the provisions of Article 28, paragraph (4) (referred to as "entrusted affairs" in the following paragraph), which they have learned. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 製品検査の業務又は委託事務に従事する登録検査機関の役員又は職員は、刑法（明治四十年法律第四十五号）その他の罰則の適用については、法令により公務に従事する職員とみなす。 art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40/par-2 Officers or employees of a registered conformity assessment body who are engaged in the operation of product inspections or entrusted affairs are deemed to be officials engaged in public services under laws and regulations in applying the Penal Code (Act No. 45 of 1907) and other penal provisions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-40/par-1: 第二十八条第四項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第四項 (Article 28, paragraph (4)), art-28/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-4 - art-40/par-1: 次項 → 食品衛生法 第四十条第二項 (Article 40, paragraph (2)), art-40/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40/par-2 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第四十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40/par-1 - 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 第八十三条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-83/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-83/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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