# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第六条 (Article 6) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6. 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: 第六条 (Article 6) — address `art-6` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6 - 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. --- ### 第六条 art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6 **第一項** 次に掲げる食品又は添加物は、これを販売し（不特定又は多数の者に授与する販売以外の場合を含む。以下同じ。）、又は販売の用に供するために、採取し、製造し、輸入し、加工し、使用し、調理し、貯蔵し、若しくは陳列してはならない。 art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6/par-1 The following food and additives must not be sold (including cases of providing them to a large number of persons or unspecified persons other than by selling; the same applies below), or collected, produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, stored, or displayed for the purpose of selling: Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The following food and additives must not be sold (including cases other than providing them to a large number of persons or unspecified persons; the same applies below), or collected, produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, stored, or displayed for the purpose of selling:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **一** 腐敗し、若しくは変敗したもの又は未熟であるもの。ただし、一般に人の健康を損なうおそれがなく飲食に適すると認められているものは、この限りでない。 art-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6/par-1/item-1 those that are rotten or have deteriorated, or are unripe; provided, however, that this does not apply to those that are unlikely to harm human health in general and are found to be suitable for eating and drinking; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 有毒な、若しくは有害な物質が含まれ、若しくは付着し、又はこれらの疑いがあるもの。ただし、人の健康を損なうおそれがない場合として厚生労働大臣が定める場合においては、この限りでない。 art-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6/par-1/item-2 those that contain toxic or harmful substances or are adhered with those substances, or suspected to contain or adhered with them; provided, however, that this does not apply when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare specifies that they are unlikely to harm human health; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 病原微生物により汚染され、又はその疑いがあり、人の健康を損なうおそれがあるもの。 art-6/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6/par-1/item-3 those that are contaminated with pathogens or suspected to be contaminated with them, and are likely to harm human health; and Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **四** 不潔、異物の混入又は添加その他の事由により、人の健康を損なうおそれがあるもの。 art-6/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-6/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6/par-1/item-4 those that are likely to harm human health due to filth, contamination or addition of foreign substances, or due to other reasons. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "those that are likely to harm human health due to contamination or addition of foreign substances, or due to other reasons." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第九条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-11/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-58/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-58/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59/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 第六十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/par-2 - 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 第六十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-81/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-81/par-1/item-1 --- ## 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 6, 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 6, paragraph (1), item (iv) — 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