# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二十四条 (Article 24) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24. 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: 第二十四条 (Article 24) — address `art-24` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24 - 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. --- ### 第二十四条 art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24 **第一項** 都道府県知事等は、指針に基づき、毎年度、翌年度の当該都道府県等が行う監視指導の実施に関する計画（以下「都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画」という。）を定めなければならない。 art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-1 Each fiscal year, the prefectural governor, etc. must establish a plan concerning the following fiscal year's monitoring and guidance to be implemented by that prefecture, etc. (referred to below as "prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation"), based on the guidelines. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画は、次に掲げる事項について定めるものとする。 art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-2 A prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation is to specify the following matters: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 重点的に監視指導を実施すべき項目に関する事項 art-24/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-2/item-1 matters concerning items for which monitoring and guidance should be intensively implemented; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 食品等事業者に対する自主的な衛生管理の実施に係る指導に関する事項 art-24/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-2/item-2 matters concerning guidance on the implementation of voluntary sanitation management for food business operators; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **三** 監視指導の実施に当たつての国、他の都道府県等その他関係機関との連携協力の確保に関する事項 art-24/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-2/item-3 matters concerning the ensuring of coordination and cooperation with the national government, other prefectures, etc., and other relevant organizations in implementing monitoring and guidance; and Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "matters concerning the ensuring of coordination and cooperation with the national government, prefectures, etc., and other relevant organizations in implementing monitoring and guidance; and" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **四** その他監視指導の実施のために必要な事項 art-24/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-2/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-2/item-4 other necessary matters for implementing monitoring and guidance. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画は、当該都道府県等の区域における食品等事業者の施設の設置の状況、食品衛生上の危害の発生の状況その他の地域の実情を勘案して定められなければならない。 art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-3 A prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation must be established by taking into account the situation of establishment of facilities by food business operators in the areas of that prefecture, etc., the status of occurrence of food sanitation hazards, and other actual circumstances of the regions. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 都道府県知事等は、都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画を定め、又はこれを変更したときは、遅滞なく、これを公表するとともに、厚生労働省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、厚生労働大臣及び内閣総理大臣に報告しなければならない。 art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-4 When a prefectural governor, etc. has established or amended the prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation, the prefectural governor, etc. must publicize that fact and report that fact to the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare and the Prime Minister, without delay, pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 都道府県知事等は、都道府県等食品衛生監視指導計画の実施の状況について、厚生労働省令・内閣府令で定めるところにより、公表しなければならない。 art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-24/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-24/par-5 The prefectural governor, etc. must publicize the implementation status of the prefectural plan for monitoring and guidance of food sanitation pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Cabinet Office Order. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第七十条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-3 --- ## 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 24, paragraph (2), item (iii) — 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