# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10. 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: 第十条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 10)（国民の意見の聴取等） — address `suppl-4151-55/art-10` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10 - 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. --- ### 第十条（国民の意見の聴取等） — Hearing the Opinions of the Public, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4151-55/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、この法律の施行の日前においても、第一条の規定による改正後の食品衛生法第十三条の二第一項に規定する指針を定めようとするとき、及び同法第十三条の三第一項に規定する輸入食品監視指導計画を定めようとするときは、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、広く国民の意見を求めることができる。 suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the date on which this Act comes into effect, when intending to establish the guidelines prescribed in Article 13-2, paragraph (1) of the Food Sanitation Act after amendment by the provisions of Article 1 and when intending to establish the imported food monitoring and guidance plan prescribed in Article 13-3, paragraph (1) of that Act, publicize the purpose, content, and other necessary matters and broadly seek the opinions of the public. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、この法律の施行の日前においても、第九条の規定による改正後の食品衛生法及び栄養改善法の一部を改正する法律附則第二条の二第一項の規定により添加物の名称を既存添加物名簿から消除しようとするときは、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、広く国民の意見を求め、又は食品安全委員会若しくは薬事・食品衛生審議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the date on which this Act comes into effect, when intending to delete the name of an additive from the list of existing additives pursuant to the provisions of Article 2-2, paragraph (1) of the Supplementary Provisions of the Act Partially Amending the Food Sanitation Act and the Nutrition Improvement Act after amendment by the provisions of Article 9, publicize the purpose, content, and other necessary matters and broadly seek the opinions of the public, or hear the opinions of the Food Safety Commission or the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、附則第一条第三号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても、次に掲げる場合には、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、広く国民の意見を求め、又は食品安全委員会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (iii) of the Supplementary Provisions, in the following cases, publicize the purpose, content, and other necessary matters and broadly seek the opinions of the public, or hear the opinions of the Food Safety Commission: machine translation, not official **一** 新食品衛生法第九条第一項の厚生労働省令を定めようとするとき。 suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3/item-1 When intending to establish the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare referred to in Article 9, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act. machine translation, not official **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、附則第一条第五号に掲げる規定の施行の日前においても、第三条の規定による改正後の食品衛生法第十一条第三項の規定により人の健康を損なうおそれのないことが明らかである物質及び人の健康を損なうおそれのない量を定めようとするときは、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、広く国民の意見を求め、又は食品安全委員会若しくは薬事・食品衛生審議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the date of enforcement of the provisions listed in Article 1, item (v) of the Supplementary Provisions, when intending to establish the substances that are clearly not likely to harm human health and the amounts not likely to harm human health pursuant to the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act after amendment by the provisions of Article 3, publicize the purpose, content, and other necessary matters and broadly seek the opinions of the public, or hear the opinions of the Food Safety Commission or the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3: 附則第一条第三号 → 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第三号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (iii)), suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-3 - suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-3/item-1: 新食品衛生法第九条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第十条第一項 (Article 10, paragraph (1)), art-10/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-10/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10/par-1 - suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4: 附則第一条第五号 → 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第五号 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 1, paragraph (1), item (v)), suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-5 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-5 - suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4: 食品衛生法第十一条第三項 → 食品衛生法 第十三条第三項 (Article 13, paragraph (3)), art-13/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-3 ## Cited by 3 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第二号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-1/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 附則第二条第一項（登録検査機関に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/en/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-2/par-1 --- ## 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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-006, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02