# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第六十六条 (Article 66) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-66. 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: 第六十六条 (Article 66) — address `art-66` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-66 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-66 - 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. --- ### 第六十六条 art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-66 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-66 **第一項** 前条に規定する場合において、厚生労働大臣は、必要があると認めるときは、協議会を開催し、食中毒の原因調査及びその結果に関する必要な情報を共有し、関係機関等の連携の緊密化を図るとともに、食中毒患者等の広域にわたる発生又はその拡大を防止するために必要な対策について協議を行うよう努めなければならない。 art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-66/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-66/par-1 In the case prescribed in the preceding Article, when the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds it necessary, the Minister must hold a council meeting, share necessary information on the investigation of the causes of food poisoning and the results of the investigation, aim at closer cooperation among the relevant organizations, and endeavor to conduct discussions on necessary measures to prevent patients with food poisoning, etc. to be found over a wide area, or their increase. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-66/par-1: 前条 → 食品衛生法 第六十五条 (Article 65), art-65 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-65 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-65 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第二十一条の三第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-21-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-21-3/par-1 --- ## 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