# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十五条 (Article 15) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-15. 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: 第十五条 (Article 15) — address `art-15` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-15 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-15 - 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. --- ### 第十五条 art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-15 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-15 **第一項** 営業上使用する器具及び容器包装は、清潔で衛生的でなければならない。 art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-15/par-1 Apparatus, and containers and packages used for conducting business must be clean and sanitary. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第六十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-68/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-68/par-3 - 食品衛生法 附則第四条第一項（指定検査機関に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4071-101/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4071-101/art-4/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 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02