# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第八条 (Article 8) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8. 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: 第八条 (Article 8) — address `art-8` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8 - 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. --- ### 第八条 art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8 **第一項** 食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止する見地から特別の注意を必要とする成分又は物であつて、厚生労働大臣及び内閣総理大臣が食品衛生基準審議会の意見を聴いて指定したもの（第三項及び第七十条第五項において「指定成分等」という。）を含む食品（以下この項において「指定成分等含有食品」という。）を取り扱う営業者は、その取り扱う指定成分等含有食品が人の健康に被害を生じ、又は生じさせるおそれがある旨の情報を得た場合は、当該情報を、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、遅滞なく、都道府県知事、保健所を設置する市の市長又は特別区の区長（以下「都道府県知事等」という。）に届け出なければならない。 art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-1 When a business operator that handles food containing ingredients or substances that require special attention from the viewpoint of preventing food sanitation hazards and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister have designated after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council (referred to as "designated ingredients, etc." in paragraph (3) and Article 70, paragraph (5)) (referred to as "food containing designated ingredients, etc." below in this paragraph) obtains information that the food containing designated ingredients, etc. handled by them causes or may cause harm to human health, they must notify a prefectural governor, a mayor of the city with public health centers or a mayor of the special ward (referred to below as the "prefectural governor, etc.") of that information without delay pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a business operator that handles food containing ingredients or substances that require special attention from the viewpoint of preventing food sanitation hazards and the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister have designated (referred to as "food containing designated ingredients, etc." below in this paragraph) after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council (referred to as "designated ingredients, etc." in paragraph (3) and Article 70, paragraph (5)) obtains information that the food containing designated ingredients, etc. handled by them causes or may cause harm to human health, they must notify a prefectural governor, a mayor of the city with public health centers or a mayor of the special ward (referred to below as the "prefectural governor, etc.") of that information without delay pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 都道府県知事等は、前項の規定による届出があつたときは、当該届出に係る事項を厚生労働大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-2 When a notification under the provisions of the preceding paragraph has been given, the prefectural governor, etc. must report the matters related to the notification to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 医師、歯科医師、薬剤師その他の関係者は、指定成分等の摂取によるものと疑われる人の健康に係る被害の把握に努めるとともに、都道府県知事等が、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため指定成分等の摂取によるものと疑われる人の健康に係る被害に関する調査を行う場合において、当該調査に関し必要な協力を要請されたときは、当該要請に応じ、当該被害に関する情報の提供その他必要な協力をするよう努めなければならない。 art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-3 Physicians, dentists, pharmacists, and other relevant persons must endeavor to grasp the state of damage to human health suspected of being caused by the ingestion of designated ingredients, etc., and when the prefectural governor, etc. conducts investigation of the damage to human health suspected of being caused by the ingestion of designated ingredients, etc. to prevent food sanitation hazards, and requests necessary cooperation for the investigation, they must endeavor to provide information on the damage or other necessary cooperation, in response to the request. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-8/par-1: 第三項 → 食品衛生法 第八条第三項 (Article 8, paragraph (3)), art-8/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-3 - art-8/par-1: 第七十条第五項 → 食品衛生法 第七十条第五項 (Article 70, paragraph (5)), art-70/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-5 - art-8/par-1: この項 → 食品衛生法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-1 - art-8/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-2 - 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 第七十条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-5 - 食品衛生法 第七十三条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-73/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-73/par-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第十一条第二項（国民の意見の聴取等） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11/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 8, 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 — 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