# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第五十九条 (Article 59) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-59. 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: 第五十九条 (Article 59) — address `art-59` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-59 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59 - 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. --- ### 第五十九条 art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-59 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣又は都道府県知事は、営業者が第六条、第十条から第十二条まで、第十三条第二項若しくは第三項、第十六条若しくは第十八条第二項若しくは第三項の規定に違反した場合又は第九条第一項若しくは第十七条第一項の規定による禁止に違反した場合においては、営業者若しくは当該職員にその食品、添加物、器具若しくは容器包装を廃棄させ、又はその他営業者に対し食品衛生上の危害を除去するために必要な処置をとることを命ずることができる。 art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-59/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59/par-1 When a business operator violates the provisions of Article 6, Articles 10 through 12, Article 13, paragraph (2) or (3), Article 16 or Article 18, paragraph (2) or (3), or violates a prohibition under the provisions of Article 9, paragraph (1) or Article 17, paragraph (1), the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare or a prefectural governor may order the business operator or the officials of the Ministry or the prefecture to dispose of the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages, or order the business operator to take other necessary measures to eliminate the food sanitation hazards. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 内閣総理大臣又は都道府県知事は、営業者が第二十条の規定に違反した場合においては、営業者若しくは当該職員にその食品、添加物、器具若しくは容器包装を廃棄させ、又はその他営業者に対し虚偽の若しくは誇大な表示若しくは広告による食品衛生上の危害を除去するために必要な処置をとることを命ずることができる。 art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-59/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-59/par-2 When a business operator has violated the provisions of Article 20, the Prime Minister or a prefectural governor may order the business operator or the relevant officials to dispose of the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages, or order the business operator to take other necessary measures to eliminate the food sanitation hazards caused by the false or exaggerated labeling or advertising. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "When a business operator has violated the provisions of Article 20, the Prime Minister or a prefectural governor may order the business operator or the officials of the Ministry or the prefecture to dispose of the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packages, or order the business operator to take other necessary measures to eliminate the food sanitation hazards caused by the false or exaggerated labeling or advertising." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb --- ## Cites - art-59/par-1: 第六条 → 食品衛生法 第六条 (Article 6), art-6 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-6 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-6 - art-59/par-1: 第十条から第十二条まで → 食品衛生法 第十条 (Article 10), art-10 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-10 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-10 - art-59/par-1: 第十条から第十二条まで → 食品衛生法 第十一条 (Article 11), art-11 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-11 - art-59/par-1: 第十条から第十二条まで → 食品衛生法 第十二条 (Article 12), art-12 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-12 - art-59/par-1: 第十三条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第十三条第二項 (Article 13, paragraph (2)), art-13/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-2 - art-59/par-1: 第三項 → 食品衛生法 第十三条第三項 (Article 13, paragraph (3)), art-13/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-13/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-13/par-3 - art-59/par-1: 第十六条 → 食品衛生法 第十六条 (Article 16), art-16 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-16 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-16 - art-59/par-1: 第十八条第二項 → 食品衛生法 第十八条第二項 (Article 18, paragraph (2)), art-18/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-18/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-18/par-2 - art-59/par-1: 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-59/par-1: 第九条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第九条第一項 (Article 9, paragraph (1)), art-9/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-9/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-9/par-1 - art-59/par-1: 第十七条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第十七条第一項 (Article 17, paragraph (1)), art-17/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-17/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-17/par-1 - art-59/par-2: 第二十条 → 食品衛生法 第二十条 (Article 20), art-20 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-20 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-20 ## Cited by 10 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第五十五条第二項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-55/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-55/par-2/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第五十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-58/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-58/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第六十二条第一項第四号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-62/par-1/item-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-62/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 - 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 第七十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-76/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-76/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十八条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-78/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-78/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-1 - 食品衛生法 第七十九条第二項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-79/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-79/par-2 - 食品衛生法 第八十一条第一項第三号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-81/par-1/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-81/par-1/item-3 --- ## 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 59, paragraph (2) — 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