# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第七条 (Article 7) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7. 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: 第七条 (Article 7) — address `art-7` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第七条 art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、一般に飲食に供されることがなかつた物であつて人の健康を損なうおそれがない旨の確証がないもの又はこれを含む物が新たに食品として販売され、又は販売されることとなつた場合において、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、それらの物を食品として販売することを禁止することができる。 art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-1 When things that have not been generally served for human consumption and have not been proved to be unlikely to harm human health, or things that include them are newly sold as food or come to be sold as food, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may prohibit those things to be sold as food, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council, when the Minister finds it necessary for preventing the occurrence of food sanitation hazards. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、一般に食品として飲食に供されている物であつて当該物の通常の方法と著しく異なる方法により飲食に供されているものについて、人の健康を損なうおそれがない旨の確証がなく、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、その物を食品として販売することを禁止することができる。 art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-2 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare finds that there is no positive proof that the things that have been generally served for human consumption and are served in a method significantly different from the normal method for those things are unlikely to harm human health and that it is necessary for preventing the occurrence of food sanitation hazards, the Minister may prohibit those things to be sold as food, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、食品によるものと疑われる人の健康に係る重大な被害が生じた場合において、当該被害の態様からみて当該食品に当該被害を生ずるおそれのある一般に飲食に供されることがなかつた物が含まれていることが疑われる場合において、食品衛生上の危害の発生を防止するため必要があると認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、その食品を販売することを禁止することができる。 art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-3 When serious damage to human health suspected to have been caused by food has occurred, and it is suspected that the food contains things that have not been generally served for human consumption and are likely to cause harm from the conditions of the damage, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may prohibit the sale of the food, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council, when the Minister finds it necessary for preventing the occurrence of food sanitation hazards. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第四項** 厚生労働大臣は、前三項の規定による販売の禁止をした場合において、厚生労働省令で定めるところにより、当該禁止に関し利害関係を有する者の申請に基づき、又は必要に応じ、当該禁止に係る物又は食品に起因する食品衛生上の危害が発生するおそれがないと認めるときは、厚生科学審議会の意見を聴いて、当該禁止の全部又は一部を解除するものとする。 art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-4 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has made a prohibition of sales under the provisions of the preceding three paragraphs and finds that there is no likelihood of food sanitation hazards caused by things or food related to the prohibition to occur based on the application from a person having an interest in the prohibition, or as required, the Minister is to revoke the prohibition in whole or in part, after hearing the opinions of the Health Science Council, pursuant to Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第五項** 厚生労働大臣は、第一項から第三項までの規定による販売の禁止をしたとき、又は前項の規定による禁止の全部若しくは一部の解除をしたときは、官報で告示するものとする。 art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-5 When the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare has made a prohibition of sales under the provisions of paragraphs (1) through (3), or has revoked the prohibition under the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the Minister is to issue public notice in an Official Gazette to that effect. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-7/par-4: 前三項 → 食品衛生法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-1 - art-7/par-4: 前三項 → 食品衛生法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-2 - art-7/par-4: 前三項 → 食品衛生法 第七条第三項 (Article 7, paragraph (3)), art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-3 - art-7/par-5: 第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第七条第一項 (Article 7, paragraph (1)), art-7/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-1 - art-7/par-5: 第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-2 - art-7/par-5: 第一項から第三項まで → 食品衛生法 第七条第三項 (Article 7, paragraph (3)), art-7/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-3 - art-7/par-5: 前項 → 食品衛生法 第七条第四項 (Article 7, paragraph (4)), art-7/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-4 ## Cited by 6 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 第七条第四項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-4 - 食品衛生法 第七条第五項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-7/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-7/par-5 - 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 第七十条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-70/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-70/par-1/item-2 - 食品衛生法 第八十一条第一項第二号 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-81/par-1/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-81/par-1/item-2 --- ## 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