# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第六十五条 (Article 65) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-65. 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: 第六十五条 (Article 65) — address `art-65` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-65 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-65 - 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. --- ### 第六十五条 art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-65 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、食中毒患者等が厚生労働省令で定める数以上発生し、若しくは発生するおそれがある場合又は食中毒患者等が広域にわたり発生し、若しくは発生するおそれがある場合であつて、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため緊急を要するときは、都道府県知事等に対し、期限を定めて、食中毒の原因を調査し、調査の結果を報告するように求めることができる。 art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-65/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-65/par-1 If the number of patients with food poisoning, etc. who have been confirmed is equal to or higher than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, it is likely that such a situation will occur, or patients with food poisoning, etc. have been found over a wide area or are likely to spread over a wide area, and there is an urgency to prevent the occurrence of food sanitation hazards, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may request prefectural governors, etc. to investigate the causes of food poisoning and report the investigation results, by specifying a time limit. Ministry of Justice translation with a slip corrected by this site — not the Ministry's text; the Ministry printed: "If the number of patients with food poisoning, etc. who have been confirmed is higher than the number specified by Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, it is likely that such a situation will occur, or patients with food poisoning, etc. have been found over a wide area or are likely to spread over a wide area, and there is an urgency to prevent the occurrence of food sanitation hazards, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may request prefectural governors, etc. to investigate the causes of food poisoning and report the investigation results, by specifying a time limit." — https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/5024/tb ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第六十六条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-66/par-1 - 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 --- ## 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 65, 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