# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第五十一条 (Article 51) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51. 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: 第五十一条 (Article 51) — address `art-51` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51 - 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. --- ### 第五十一条 art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、営業（器具又は容器包装を製造する営業及び食鳥処理の事業の規制及び食鳥検査に関する法律第二条第五号に規定する食鳥処理の事業（第五十四条及び第五十七条第一項において「食鳥処理の事業」という。）を除く。）の施設の衛生的な管理その他公衆衛生上必要な措置（以下この条において「公衆衛生上必要な措置」という。）について、厚生労働省令で、次に掲げる事項に関する基準を定めるものとする。 art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish criteria for the following matters related to the sanitary management of facilities for business (excluding businesses that manufacture apparatus, or containers and packages and businesses of poultry slaughtering defined in Article 2, item (v) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act (referred to as "poultry slaughtering businesses" in Article 54 and Article 57, paragraph (1))) and other necessary measures for public health (referred to as "measures necessary for public health" below in this Article) under 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: "The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is to establish criteria for the following matters related to the sanitary management of facilities for business (excluding business that manufacture apparatus, or containers and packages and businesses of poultry slaughtering defined in Article 2, item (v) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act (referred to as "poultry slaughtering businesses" in Article 54 and Article 57, paragraph (1))) and other necessary measures for public health (referred to as "measures necessary for public health" below in this Article") under Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare:" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **一** 施設の内外の清潔保持、ねずみ及び昆虫の駆除その他一般的な衛生管理に関すること。 art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1/item-1 matters concerning the maintenance of cleanliness and extermination of rats and insects of the interior and exterior of the facilities, and other general sanitation management; Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **二** 食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するために特に重要な工程を管理するための取組（小規模な営業者（器具又は容器包装を製造する営業者及び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。次項において同じ。）その他の政令で定める営業者にあつては、その取り扱う食品の特性に応じた取組）に関すること。 art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1/item-2 matters concerning initiatives to control processes that are particularly important for preventing food sanitation hazards (for a small scale business operator (excluding a business operator that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages, and a poultry slaughterer prescribed in Article 6, paragraph (1) of the Poultry Slaughtering Business Control and Poultry Meat Inspection Act; the same applies in the following paragraph) and other business operators specified by Cabinet Order, initiatives in accordance with the characteristics of the food handled by the business operator). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 営業者は、前項の規定により定められた基準に従い、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより公衆衛生上必要な措置を定め、これを遵守しなければならない。 art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-2 A business operator must establish the necessary measures for public health in compliance with the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph and pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, and comply with those measures. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 都道府県知事等は、公衆衛生上必要な措置について、第一項の規定により定められた基準に反しない限り、条例で必要な規定を定めることができる。 art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-3 The prefectural governor, etc. may establish necessary provisions on necessary measures for public health by Prefectural or Municipal Ordinance, provided that the provisions do not violate the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-51/par-1: 第五十四条 → 食品衛生法 第五十四条 (Article 54), art-54 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-54 - art-51/par-1: 第五十七条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第五十七条第一項 (Article 57, paragraph (1)), art-57/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-57/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-57/par-1 - art-51/par-1: この条 → 食品衛生法 第五十一条 (Article 51), art-51 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51 - art-51/par-1/item-2: 次項 → 食品衛生法 第五十一条第二項 (Article 51, paragraph (2)), art-51/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-2 - art-51/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1 - art-51/par-3: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第五十一条第一項 (Article 51, paragraph (1)), art-51/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十一条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十一条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十一条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-51/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-51/par-3 - 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 第七十条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-1/item-3 - 食品衛生法 附則第五条第一項（公衆衛生上必要な措置に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-5/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-5/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 51, 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