# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第五十三条 (Article 53) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53. 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: 第五十三条 (Article 53) — address `art-53` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53 - 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. --- ### 第五十三条 art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53 **第一項** 第十八条第三項に規定する政令で定める材質の原材料が使用された器具又は容器包装を販売し、又は販売の用に供するために製造し、若しくは輸入する者は、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、その取り扱う器具又は容器包装の販売の相手方に対し、当該取り扱う器具又は容器包装が次の各号のいずれかに該当する旨を説明しなければならない。 art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-1 A person who sells, or manufactures or imports for the purpose of selling, apparatus, or containers and packages made from raw materials of materials specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3), pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, must explain that the apparatus, or containers and packages the person handles falls under either of the following items to the other party to the sale: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **一** 第十八条第三項に規定する政令で定める材質の原材料について、同条第一項の規定により定められた規格に適合しているもののみを使用した器具又は容器包装であること。 art-53/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-1/item-1 for the raw materials of materials specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3), the apparatus, or containers and packages have been manufactured by using only raw materials that conform to the standards established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article; or Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "for the raw materials of materials specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3), the apparatus, containers or packages have been manufactured by using only raw materials that conform to the standards established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article; or" — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb **二** 第十八条第三項ただし書に規定する加工がされている器具又は容器包装であること。 art-53/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-1/item-2 the apparatus, or containers and packages have undergone processing prescribed in the proviso to Article 18, paragraph (3). Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 器具又は容器包装の原材料であつて、第十八条第三項に規定する政令で定める材質のものを販売し、又は販売の用に供するために製造し、若しくは輸入する者は、当該原材料を使用して器具又は容器包装を製造する者から、当該原材料が同条第一項の規定により定められた規格に適合しているものである旨の確認を求められた場合には、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、必要な説明をするよう努めなければならない。 art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-53/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-53/par-2 When a person who sells, or produces or imports for the purpose of selling, raw materials of apparatus, or containers and packages and made from materials specified by Cabinet Order prescribed in Article 18, paragraph (3) receives a request from a person who manufactures apparatus, or containers and packages using those raw materials for confirmation that the raw materials conform to the standards established pursuant to the provisions of paragraph (1) of that Article, they must endeavor to provide necessary explanations pursuant to the provisions of Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-53/par-1: 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-53/par-1/item-1: 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-53/par-1/item-1: 同条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-1 - art-53/par-1/item-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-53/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-53/par-2: 同条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第一項 (Article 18, paragraph (1)), art-18/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-1 ## Cited by 4 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 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 附則第四条第一項（器具及び容器包装の規制に関する経過措置） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-4/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-4/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 53, paragraph (1), item (i) — 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