# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第六十四条 (Article 64) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64. 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: 第六十四条 (Article 64) — address `art-64` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64 - 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. --- ### 第六十四条 art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64 **第一項** 都道府県知事等は、原因調査上必要があると認めるときは、食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装に起因し、又は起因すると疑われる疾病で死亡した者の死体を遺族の同意を得て解剖に付することができる。 art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-1 When a prefectural governor, etc. finds it necessary for investigating the cause of death, the prefectural governor, etc. may have the corpse of a person who has died of a disease that was or is suspected to have been caused by food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages be autopsied with the consent of the bereaved family. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の場合において、その死体を解剖しなければ原因が判明せず、その結果公衆衛生に重大な危害を及ぼすおそれがあると認めるときは、遺族の同意を得ないでも、これに通知した上で、その死体を解剖に付することができる。 art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-2 In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the cause of death cannot be determined without performing an autopsy on the corpse and as a result of not determining the cause, it is likely that serious public sanitation hazards will occur, the prefectural governor, etc. may perform an autopsy on the corpse even without obtaining the consent of the bereaved family, after notifying them. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "In the case referred to in the preceding paragraph, when the cause of death cannot be determined without performing an autopsy on the corpse and as a result of not determining the cause, it is likely that serious public sanitation hazards will occur, the prefectural governor, etc. may perform an autopsy on the corpse even without obtaining the consent of the bereaved family." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第三項** 前二項の規定は、刑事訴訟に関する規定による強制の処分を妨げない。 art-64/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-3 The provisions of the preceding two paragraphs must not preclude compulsory dispositions under the provisions concerning criminal proceedings to be made. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 第一項又は第二項の規定により死体を解剖する場合においては、礼意を失わないように注意しなければならない。 art-64/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-4 When performing an autopsy on a corpse pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) or (2), care must be taken not to lose respect for the deceased. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-64/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第一項 (Article 64, paragraph (1)), art-64/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-1 - art-64/par-3: 前二項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第一項 (Article 64, paragraph (1)), art-64/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-1 - art-64/par-3: 前二項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第二項 (Article 64, paragraph (2)), art-64/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-2 - art-64/par-4: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第一項 (Article 64, paragraph (1)), art-64/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-1 - art-64/par-4: 第二項 → 食品衛生法 第六十四条第二項 (Article 64, paragraph (2)), art-64/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-2 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第六十二条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-62/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-62/par-1/item-5 - 食品衛生法 第六十四条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第六十四条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第六十四条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-64/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-64/par-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 第七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-2 --- ## 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 64, 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 — 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