# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第一条 (Article 1)

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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: 第一条 (Article 1) — address `art-1`
- Text in force since: 2025-06-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-1
- Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-1
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### 第一条
<sup>art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-1</sup>

**第一項**  この法律は、食品の安全性の確保のために公衆衛生の見地から必要な規制その他の措置を講ずることにより、飲食に起因する衛生上の危害の発生を防止し、もつて国民の健康の保護を図ることを目的とする。
<sup>art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-1/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-1/par-1</sup>
The purpose of this Act is to prevent sanitation hazards resulting from eating and drinking by enforcing regulations and other measures necessary from the viewpoint of public health for ensuring food safety, thereby protecting the people's health.
<sup>Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The purpose of this Act is to prevent sanitation hazards resulting from eating and drinking by enforcing regulations and other measures necessary from the viewpoint of public health for ensuring food safety, thereby protect the people's health." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb</sup>

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## 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 1, 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