# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十二条 (Article 12) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-12. 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: 第十二条 (Article 12) — address `art-12` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-12 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-12 - 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. --- ### 第十二条 art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-12 **第一項** 人の健康を損なうおそれのない場合として内閣総理大臣が食品衛生基準審議会の意見を聴いて定める場合を除いては、添加物（天然香料及び一般に食品として飲食に供されている物であつて添加物として使用されるものを除く。）並びにこれを含む製剤及び食品は、これを販売し、又は販売の用に供するために、製造し、輸入し、加工し、使用し、貯蔵し、若しくは陳列してはならない。 art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-12/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-12/par-1 Additives (excluding natural flavoring agents and things that have been generally served for human consumption, and are used as additives) and formulations and food containing those additives must not be sold or be produced, imported, processed, used, stored, or displayed for the purpose of selling, unless the Prime Minister specifies them as those unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 11 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第九条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第四十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-48/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-48/par-1 - 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 第六十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第二項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-2/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十一条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-81/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-81/par-1/item-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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02