# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第五十条 (Article 50) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50. 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: 第五十条 (Article 50) — address `art-50` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-50 - 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. --- ### 第五十条 art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-50 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、食品又は添加物の製造又は加工の過程において有毒な又は有害な物質が当該食品又は添加物に混入することを防止するための措置に関し必要な基準を定めることができる。 art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-50/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may establish the necessary criteria concerning measures to prevent toxic or harmful substances from getting mixed into the food or additives in the process of the production or processing of food or additives. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 営業者（食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律第六条第一項に規定する食鳥処理業者を除く。）は、前項の規定により基準が定められたときは、これを遵守しなければならない。 art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-50/par-2 When criteria have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, a business operator (excluding poultry slaughterers prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act) must comply with the criteria. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-50/par-2: 食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律第六条第一項 → e-Gov law 402AC0000000070, 第六条第一項 (Article 6, paragraph (1)), art-6/par-1 — not held in this collection - art-50/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第五十条第一項 (Article 50, paragraph (1)), art-50/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-50/par-1 ## Cited by 5 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-50/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-50/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第六十条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第六十条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-60/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-60/par-2 - 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 第七十条第一項第五号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-1/item-5 --- ## 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