# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第三十七条 (Article 37) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37. 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: 第三十七条 (Article 37) — address `art-37` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37 - 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. --- ### 第三十七条 art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37 **第一項** 登録検査機関は、製品検査の業務に関する規程（以下「業務規程」という。）を定め、製品検査の業務の開始前に、厚生労働大臣の認可を受けなければならない。これを変更しようとするときも、同様とする。 art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37/par-1 A registered conformity assessment body must establish rules concerning the operation of product inspections (referred to below as "operational rules") and obtain an approval from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare before commencing the operation of product inspections. The same applies when the registered conformity assessment body intends to change the operational rules. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 業務規程には、製品検査の実施方法、製品検査に関する手数料その他の厚生労働省令で定める事項を定めておかなければならない。 art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37/par-2 Operational rules must specify the method of conducting product inspections, fees concerning product inspections, and other matters specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "Operational rules must specify the method of conducting product inspections, fees concerning product inspections, and other matters specified by Order of the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項の認可をした業務規程が製品検査の公正な実施上不適当となつたと認めるときは、その業務規程を変更すべきことを命ずることができる。 art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37/par-3 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that the operational rules for which the Minister has granted approval referred to in paragraph (1) have become inappropriate for conducting product inspections in a fair manner, the Minister may order the registered conformity assessment body to change the operational rules. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-37/par-3: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第三十七条第一項 (Article 37, paragraph (1)), art-37/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37/par-1 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第三十七条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-37/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-37/par-3 - 食品衛生法 第四十三条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-43/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-43/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 第四十三条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-43/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-43/par-1/item-4 - 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 附則第二条第二項（登録検査機関に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-2/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-2/par-2 - 食品衛生法 附則第十一条第一項（施行前の準備） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4151-55/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4151-55/art-11/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 37, 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 — 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