# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第四十二条 (Article 42) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-42. 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: 第四十二条 (Article 42) — address `art-42` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-42 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-42 - 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. --- ### 第四十二条 art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-42 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-42 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、登録検査機関が第三十五条の規定に違反していると認めるとき、又は登録検査機関が行う製品検査若しくは第二十五条第一項の規定による表示若しくは第二十六条第四項の規定による通知の記載が適当でないと認めるときは、当該登録検査機関に対し、製品検査を行うべきこと又は製品検査の方法その他の業務の方法の改善に必要な措置を執るべきことを命ずることができる。 art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-42/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-42/par-1 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that a registered conformity assessment body has violated the provisions of Article 35, or that product inspections conducted by a registered conformity assessment body, labeling under the provisions of Article 25, paragraph (1), or the statement in the notice under the provisions of Article 26, paragraph (4) is not appropriate, the Minister may order that the registered conformity assessment body should conduct product inspections or take necessary measures for improving the method of product inspections or other operational methods. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-42/par-1: 第三十五条 → 食品衛生法 第三十五条 (Article 35), art-35 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-35 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-35 - art-42/par-1: 第二十五条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第二十五条第一項 (Article 25, paragraph (1)), art-25/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-25/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-25/par-1 - art-42/par-1: 第二十六条第四項 → 食品衛生法 第二十六条第四項 (Article 26, paragraph (4)), art-26/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-26/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-26/par-4 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 --- ## 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