# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十三条 (Article 13) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13. 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: 第十三条 (Article 13) — address `art-13` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13 - 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. --- ### 第十三条 art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13 **第一項** 内閣総理大臣は、公衆衛生の見地から、食品衛生基準審議会の意見を聴いて、販売の用に供する食品若しくは添加物の製造、加工、使用、調理若しくは保存の方法につき基準を定め、又は販売の用に供する食品若しくは添加物の成分につき規格を定めることができる。 art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-1 The Prime Minister may establish the criteria for the method of producing, processing, using, cooking, or preserving food or additives to be sold, or the standards for the ingredients of food or additives to be sold, from the viewpoint of public health, after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 前項の規定により基準又は規格が定められたときは、その基準に合わない方法により食品若しくは添加物を製造し、加工し、使用し、調理し、若しくは保存し、その基準に合わない方法による食品若しくは添加物を販売し、若しくは輸入し、又はその規格に合わない食品若しくは添加物を製造し、輸入し、加工し、使用し、調理し、保存し、若しくは販売してはならない。 art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-2 When the criteria or standards have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, food or additives must not be produced, processed, used, cooked, or preserved using a method that does not conform to the criteria, food or additives made using a method that does not conform to the criteria must not be sold or imported, and food or additives that do not conform to the standards must not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, preserved, or sold. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the criteria or standards have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, food or additives must not be produced, processed, used, cooked, or preserved using a method that does not conform to the criteria, food or additives that do not conform to the criteria must not be sold or imported, and food or additives that do not conform to the standards must not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, preserved, or sold." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第三項** 農薬（農薬取締法（昭和二十三年法律第八十二号）第二条第一項に規定する農薬をいう。次条において同じ。）、飼料の安全性の確保及び品質の改善に関する法律（昭和二十八年法律第三十五号）第二条第三項の規定に基づく農林水産省令で定める用途に供することを目的として飼料（同条第二項に規定する飼料をいう。）に添加、混和、浸潤その他の方法によつて用いられる物及び医薬品、医療機器等の品質、有効性及び安全性の確保等に関する法律第二条第一項に規定する医薬品であつて動物のために使用されることが目的とされているものの成分である物質（その物質が化学的に変化して生成した物質を含み、人の健康を損なうおそれのないことが明らかであるものとして内閣総理大臣が定める物質を除く。）が、人の健康を損なうおそれのない量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量を超えて残留する食品は、これを販売の用に供するために製造し、輸入し、加工し、使用し、調理し、保存し、又は販売してはならない。ただし、当該物質の当該食品に残留する量の限度について第一項の食品の成分に係る規格が定められている場合については、この限りでない。 art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-3 Food in which agricultural chemicals (meaning agricultural chemicals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Act (Act No. 82 of 1948), the same applies in the following Article), substances that are used by being added, mixed or infiltrated into feed (meaning feed prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feed (Act No. 35 of 1953)) or are used by other methods for the purpose of usage specified by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries based on Article 2, paragraph (3) of that Act, and substances that are ingredients of pharmaceuticals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices and are to be used for animals (including substances generated by chemical change of that substance, and excluding those specified by the Prime Minister as those clearly not likely to harm human health) remain in a quantity exceeding the quantity that the Prime Minister has specified as being unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council, must not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, or preserved for the purpose of selling, or be sold; provided, however, that this does not apply when standards for the ingredients of food referred to in paragraph (1) have been established concerning the limit of the amount of residue of those substances in the food. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Food in which agricultural chemicals (meaning agricultural chemicals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Agricultural Chemicals Regulation Act (Act No. 82 of 1948), the same applies in the following Article), substances that are used by being added, mixed or infiltrated into feed (meaning feed prescribed in Article 2, paragraph (2) of the Act on Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feed (Act No. 35 of 1953)) or are used by other methods for the purpose of usage specified by Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries based on Article 2, paragraph (3) of that Article, and substances that are ingredients of pharmaceuticals defined in Article 2, paragraph (1) of the Act on Securing Quality, Efficacy and Safety of Products Including Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices and are to be used for animals (including substances generated by chemical change of that substance, and excluding those specified by the Prime Minister as those clearly not likely to harm human health) remain in a quantity exceeding the quantity that the Prime Minister has specified as being unlikely to harm human health after hearing the opinions of the Food Safety Standards Council, must not be produced, imported, processed, used, cooked, preserved, for the purpose of selling, or be sold; provided, however, that this does not apply when standards for the ingredients of food referred to in paragraph (1) have been established concerning the limit of the amount of residue of those substances in the food." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## Cites - art-13/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-1 - art-13/par-3: 農薬取締法（昭和二十三年法律第八十二号）第二条第一項 → e-Gov law 323AC0000000082, 第二条第一項 (Article 2, paragraph (1)), art-2/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-13/par-3: 次条 → 食品衛生法 第十四条 (Article 14), art-14 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-14 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-14 - art-13/par-3: 飼料の安全性の確保及び品質の改善に関する法律（昭和二十八年法律第三十五号）第二条第三項 → e-Gov law 328AC1000000035, 第二条第三項 (Article 2, paragraph (3)), art-2/par-3 — not held in this collection - art-13/par-3: 同条第二項 → e-Gov law 328AC1000000035, 第二条第二項 (Article 2, paragraph (2)), art-2/par-2 — not held in this collection - art-13/par-3: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第十三条第一項 (Article 13, paragraph (1)), art-13/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-1 ## Cited by 24 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第九条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第九条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1/item-4 - 食品衛生法 第九条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1/item-5 - 食品衛生法 第十三条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第十三条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第十四条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-14/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-14/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-21/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-21/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十五条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-25/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第二十六条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-1/item-4 - 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 第六十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-2/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第七十条第二項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-2/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第八十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-82/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-82/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十八条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-88/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-88/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十八条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-88/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-88/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 附則第十条第四項（国民の意見の聴取等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-10/par-4 - 食品衛生法 附則第三条第一項（総合衛生管理製造過程の承認に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-3/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 13, 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 (食品衛生法), Article 13, paragraph (3) — 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