# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十一条 (Article 11) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-11. 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: 第十一条 (Article 11) — address `art-11` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-11 - 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). 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条 art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-11 **第一項** 食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するために特に重要な工程を管理するための措置が講じられていることが必要なものとして厚生労働省令で定める食品又は添加物は、当該措置が講じられていることが確実であるものとして厚生労働大臣が定める国若しくは地域又は施設において製造し、又は加工されたものでなければ、これを販売の用に供するために輸入してはならない。 art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-11/par-1 The food and additives specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those that require measures to control particularly important processes for preventing food sanitation hazards to be taken, must not be imported for the purpose of selling, unless they have been produced or processed in a country or region, or facilities specified by the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare as being certain that those measures have been taken. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 第六条各号に掲げる食品又は添加物のいずれにも該当しないことその他厚生労働省令で定める事項を確認するために生産地における食品衛生上の管理の状況の証明が必要であるものとして厚生労働省令で定める食品又は添加物は、輸出国の政府機関によつて発行され、かつ、当該事項を記載した証明書又はその写しを添付したものでなければ、これを販売の用に供するために輸入してはならない。 art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-11/par-2 The food and additives specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those that require proof of the state of food sanitation management at the production site to confirm that they do not fall under any of the food and additives stated in the items of Article 6 and confirm other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must not be imported for the purpose of selling, unless they are attached with a certificate issued by a governmental organization of the exporting country, and stating those matters, or its copy. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "The food and additives specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare as those that require proof of the state of food sanitation management at the production site to confirm that they do not fall under any of the food and additives stated in the items of Article 6 and confirm other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must not be imported for the purpose of selling, unless they are attached with a certificate issued by a governmental organization of the exporting country, and state those matters, or its copy." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## Cites - art-11/par-2: 第六条 → 食品衛生法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/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/ja/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/ja/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/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第八十三条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-83/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-83/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第二条第一項（食品等の輸入に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-2/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-2/par-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 11, 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