# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第二十八条 (Article 28) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28. 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: 第二十八条 (Article 28) — address `art-28` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28 - 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. --- ### 第二十八条 art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣、内閣総理大臣又は都道府県知事等は、必要があると認めるときは、営業者その他の関係者から必要な報告を求め、当該職員に営業の場所、事務所、倉庫その他の場所に臨検し、販売の用に供し、若しくは営業上使用する食品、添加物、器具若しくは容器包装、営業の施設、帳簿書類その他の物件を検査させ、又は試験の用に供するのに必要な限度において、販売の用に供し、若しくは営業上使用する食品、添加物、器具若しくは容器包装を無償で収去させることができる。 art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or a prefectural governor, etc. finds it necessary, they may request a business operator or other relevant persons to make the necessary report, have their officials conduct an inspection of the place of business, office, warehouse, and other places, inspect food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages to be used for selling or used for business, business facilities, books and documents, and other objects, or have the officials collect and remove food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages to be used for selling or used for business, to the extent necessary for using them for testing, without compensation for the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or a prefectural governor, etc. finds it necessary, they may request a business operator or other relevant persons to make the necessary report, have their officials conduct an inspection of the place of business, office, warehouse, and other places, inspect food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages to be used for selling or used for business, business facilities, books and documents, and other objects, or have the officials collect and remove food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages to be used for selling or used for business, to the extent necessary for using them for testing, without compensation for the food, additives, apparatus, or containers or packages." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第二項** 前項の規定により当該職員に臨検検査又は収去をさせる場合においては、これにその身分を示す証票を携帯させ、かつ、関係者の請求があるときは、これを提示させなければならない。 art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-2 When having officials conduct on-site inspection, or collect and remove objects pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or the prefectural governor, etc. must have the officials carry their identification card, and, present it when requested by the relevant persons. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第一項の規定による権限は、犯罪捜査のために認められたものと解釈してはならない。 art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-3 The authority under the provisions of paragraph (1) must not be construed as having been granted for the purpose of a criminal investigation. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 厚生労働大臣、内閣総理大臣又は都道府県知事等は、第一項の規定により収去した食品、添加物、器具又は容器包装の試験に関する事務を登録検査機関に委託することができる。 art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-4 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, the Prime Minister, or a prefectural governor, etc. may entrust the affairs concerning the testing of food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages that have been collected and removed pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) to a registered conformity assessment body. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-28/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 - art-28/par-3: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 - art-28/par-4: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十八条第一項 (Article 28, paragraph (1)), art-28/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-1 ## Cited by 17 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第十七条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-17/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十八条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第二十八条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第二十八条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-28/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-28/par-4 - 食品衛生法 第二十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-29/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第二十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-29/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-29/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第三十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-30/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-30/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第四十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-40/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-40/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第四十七条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-47/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-47/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第六十二条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-62/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-62/par-1/item-1 - 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 第七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第八十五条第一項第一号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-85/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-85/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 第八十五条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-85/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-85/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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 28, paragraph (1) — 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