# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第四十八条 (Article 48)

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- 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: 第四十八条 (Article 48) — address `art-48`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48
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### 第四十八条
<sup>art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48</sup>

**第一項**  乳製品、第十二条の規定により内閣総理大臣が定めた添加物その他製造又は加工の過程において特に衛生上の考慮を必要とする食品又は添加物であつて政令で定めるものの製造又は加工を行う営業者は、その製造又は加工を衛生的に管理させるため、その施設ごとに、専任の食品衛生管理者を置かなければならない。ただし、営業者が自ら食品衛生管理者となつて管理する施設については、この限りでない。
<sup>art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-1</sup>
A business operator that produces or processes dairy products, additives specified by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, or other food or additives that require sanitary consideration in particular in the process of production or processing, which are specified by Cabinet Order, must have a full-time food sanitation supervisor for each facility to supervise the production or processing in a sanitary manner; provided, however, that this does not apply to facilities which the business operator personally supervises as a food sanitation supervisor.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "A business operator that produces or processes dairy products, additives specified by the Prime Minister pursuant to the provisions of Article 12, or other food or additives that require sanitary consideration in particular in the process of production or processing, which are specified by Cabinet Order, must have a full-time food sanitation supervisor for each facility to supervise the production or processing in a sanitary manner; provided, however, that this does not apply to facilities which the business operator personally supervises the facility as a food sanitation supervisor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb</sup>

**第二項**  営業者が、前項の規定により食品衛生管理者を置かなければならない製造業又は加工業を二以上の施設で行う場合において、その施設が隣接しているときは、食品衛生管理者は、同項の規定にかかわらず、その二以上の施設を通じて一人で足りる。
<sup>art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-2</sup>
If a business operator conducts production or processing business that requires having a full-time food sanitation supervisor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph at two or more facilities, and those facilities are adjacent to each other, it is sufficient to have one food sanitation supervisor for those two or more facilities, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If a business operator conducts production or processing business that require to have a full-time food sanitation supervisor pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph at two or more facilities, and those facilities are adjacent to each other, it is sufficient to have one food sanitation supervisor for those two or more facilities, notwithstanding the provisions of that paragraph." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb</sup>

**第三項**  食品衛生管理者は、当該施設においてその管理に係る食品又は添加物に関してこの法律又はこの法律に基づく命令若しくは処分に係る違反が行われないように、その食品又は添加物の製造又は加工に従事する者を監督しなければならない。
<sup>art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-3</sup>
A food sanitation supervisor must supervise persons who are engaged in the production or processing of food or additives at the facility to prevent violations of this Act, or orders or dispositions based on this Act concerning the food or additives that the food sanitation supervisor supervises.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第四項**  食品衛生管理者は、前項に定めるもののほか、当該施設においてその管理に係る食品又は添加物に関してこの法律又はこの法律に基づく命令若しくは処分に係る違反の防止及び食品衛生上の危害の発生の防止のため、当該施設における衛生管理の方法その他の食品衛生に関する事項につき、必要な注意をするとともに、営業者に対し必要な意見を述べなければならない。
<sup>art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-4</sup>
Beyond what is provided for in the preceding paragraph, a food sanitation supervisor must pay necessary attention to sanitation management method at the facility and other matters concerning food sanitation, in order to prevent violations of this Act or orders or dispositions based on this Act and prevent food sanitation hazards concerning the food or additives the food sanitation supervisor manages at the facility, and express necessary opinions to a business operator.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第五項**  営業者は、その施設に食品衛生管理者を置いたときは、前項の規定による食品衛生管理者の意見を尊重しなければならない。
<sup>art-48/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-5</sup>
When a food sanitation supervisor has been placed at a facility, a business operator must respect the opinions of the food sanitation supervisor expressed under the provisions of the preceding paragraph.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第六項**  次の各号のいずれかに該当する者でなければ、食品衛生管理者となることができない。
<sup>art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6</sup>
Only persons falling under any of the following items may become a food sanitation supervisor:
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **一**  医師、歯科医師、薬剤師又は獣医師
  <sup>art-48/par-6/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6/item-1</sup>
  a physician, dentist, pharmacist, or veterinarian;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **二**  学校教育法（昭和二十二年法律第二十六号）に基づく大学、旧大学令（大正七年勅令第三百八十八号）に基づく大学又は旧専門学校令（明治三十六年勅令第六十一号）に基づく専門学校において医学、歯学、薬学、獣医学、畜産学、水産学又は農芸化学の課程を修めて卒業した者（当該課程を修めて同法に基づく専門職大学の前期課程を修了した者を含む。）
  <sup>art-48/par-6/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6/item-2</sup>
  a person who has graduated from a university under the School Education Act (Act No. 26 of 1947), a university under the former University Order (Imperial Order No. 388 of 1918), or a technical college under the former Technical College Order (Imperial Order No. 61 of 1903) after completing a course in medical science, dentistry, pharmacy, veterinary medicine, animal science, fisheries science, or agricultural chemistry (including a person who has completed the course and has completed the first-semester course of a professional and vocational university under that Act);
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **三**  都道府県知事の登録を受けた食品衛生管理者の養成施設において所定の課程を修了した者
  <sup>art-48/par-6/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6/item-3</sup>
  a person who has completed the prescribed course at a training institute for food sanitation supervisors that has obtained registration from a prefectural governor;
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

  **四**  学校教育法に基づく高等学校若しくは中等教育学校若しくは旧中等学校令（昭和十八年勅令第三十六号）に基づく中等学校を卒業した者又は厚生労働省令で定めるところによりこれらの者と同等以上の学力があると認められる者で、第一項の規定により食品衛生管理者を置かなければならない製造業又は加工業において食品又は添加物の製造又は加工の衛生管理の業務に三年以上従事し、かつ、都道府県知事の登録を受けた講習会の課程を修了した者
  <sup>art-48/par-6/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6/item-4</sup>
  a person who has graduated from a high school or secondary education school under the School Education Act or a secondary school under the former Secondary School Order (Imperial Order No. 36 of 1943), or a person who is found to have equal or higher scholastic ability than those persons pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and has been engaged in sanitation management of production or processing of food or additives for three years or more at a production business or processing business for which full-time food sanitation supervisors are required to be placed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), and, has completed the training session that has obtained the registration from a prefectural governor.
  <sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "a person who has graduated from a high school or secondary education school under the School Education Act or a secondary school under the former Secondary School Order (Imperial Order No. 36 of 1943), or a person who is found to have equal or higher scholastic ability than those persons pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and has been engaged in sanitation management of production or processing of food or additives for three years or more at a production business or processing business for which full-time food sanitation supervisors are required to be placed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1), and, has completed the training session that have obtained the registration from a prefectural governor." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb</sup>

**第七項**  前項第四号に該当することにより食品衛生管理者たる資格を有する者は、衛生管理の業務に三年以上従事した製造業又は加工業と同種の製造業又は加工業の施設においてのみ、食品衛生管理者となることができる。
<sup>art-48/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-7</sup>
A person who possesses the qualifications of a food sanitation supervisor because the person falls under item (iv) of the preceding paragraph may become a food sanitation supervisor only at a facility for the same type of production business or processing business as the business for which the person has been engaged in sanitation management work for three years or more.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

**第八項**  第一項に規定する営業者は、食品衛生管理者を置き、又は自ら食品衛生管理者となつたときは、十五日以内に、その施設の所在地の都道府県知事に、その食品衛生管理者の氏名又は自ら食品衛生管理者となつた旨その他厚生労働省令で定める事項を届け出なければならない。食品衛生管理者を変更したときも、同様とする。
<sup>art-48/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-8</sup>
When a business operator prescribed in paragraph (1) has placed a food sanitation supervisor or has become a food sanitation supervisor themselves at their facility, they must notify the prefectural governor that has jurisdiction over the locality of the facility of the name of the food sanitation supervisor or the fact that the business operator themselves have become a food sanitation supervisor and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare within 15 days. The same applies when the business operator has changed the food sanitation supervisor.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System</sup>

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## Cites
- art-48/par-1: 第十二条 → 食品衛生法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-12
- art-48/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-1
- art-48/par-4: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第四十八条第三項 (Article 48, paragraph (3)), art-48/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-3
- art-48/par-5: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第四十八条第四項 (Article 48, paragraph (4)), art-48/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-4
- art-48/par-6/item-4: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-1
- art-48/par-7: 前項第四号 → 食品衛生法 第四十八条第六項第四号 (Article 48, paragraph (6), item (iv)), art-48/par-6/item-4 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6/item-4
- art-48/par-8: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第四十八条第一項 (Article 48, paragraph (1)), art-48/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-1

## Cited by

14 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 食品衛生法 第四十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-2
- 食品衛生法 第四十八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-4
- 食品衛生法 第四十八条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-5
- 食品衛生法 第四十八条第六項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-6/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-6/item-4
- 食品衛生法 第四十八条第七項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-7
- 食品衛生法 第四十八条第八項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-8
- 食品衛生法 第四十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-49/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-49/par-1
- 食品衛生法 第六十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/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 第七十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-76/par-1
- 食品衛生法 第八十五条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-85/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-85/par-1/item-3
- 食品衛生法 第八十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-87/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-87/par-1
- 食品衛生法 附則第五条第一項（食品衛生管理者の養成施設等の登録に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-5/par-1
- 食品衛生法 附則第十一条第一項（施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-11/par-1

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## Sources

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- 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 48, 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 48, 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 (食品衛生法), Article 48, paragraph (6), item (iv) — the Ministry of Justice's English as printed (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb), retrieved 2026-11-02
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