# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第五十二条 (Article 52) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52. 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: 第五十二条 (Article 52) — address `art-52` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52 - 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. --- ### 第五十二条 art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、器具又は容器包装を製造する営業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-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/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 that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages, 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 — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 施設の内外の清潔保持その他一般的な衛生管理に関すること。 art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-1/item-1 matters concerning the maintenance of the cleanliness and other general sanitation management of the interior and exterior of the facilities; 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必要な適正に製造を管理するための取組に関すること。 art-52/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-1/item-2 matters concerning measures to appropriately manage manufacturing necessary for preventing occurrence of food sanitation hazards. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 器具又は容器包装を製造する営業者は、前項の規定により定められた基準（第十八条第三項に規定する政令で定める材質以外の材質の原材料のみが使用された器具又は容器包装を製造する営業者にあつては、前項第一号に掲げる事項に限る。）に従い、公衆衛生上必要な措置を講じなければならない。 art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-2 A business operator that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages must take necessary measures for public health in compliance with the criteria established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph (for a business operator that manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages made only from raw materials of materials other than those specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3), limited to the matters stated in item (i) of the preceding paragraph). 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-52/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/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-52/par-1: この条 → 食品衛生法 第五十二条 (Article 52), art-52 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52 - art-52/par-2: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-1 - art-52/par-2: 第十八条第三項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第三項 (Article 18, paragraph (3)), art-18/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-3 - art-52/par-2: 前項第一号 → 食品衛生法 第五十二条第一項第一号 (Article 52, paragraph (1), item (i)), art-52/par-1/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-1/item-1 - art-52/par-3: 第一項 → 食品衛生法 第五十二条第一項 (Article 52, paragraph (1)), art-52/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-1 ## Cited by 7 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十二条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第五十二条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十二条第三項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-52/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-52/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 --- ## 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