# 食品衛生法 / Food Sanitation Act — 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11) This is the Markdown twin of https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11. 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: 第十一条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 11)（国民の意見の聴取等） — address `suppl-4301-46/art-11` - Text in force since: 2025-06-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11 - 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. 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They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第十一条（国民の意見の聴取等） — Hearing the Opinions of the Public, etc. caption: machine translation, not official suppl-4301-46/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11 **第一項** 厚生労働大臣は、施行日前においても、次に掲げる場合には、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、広く国民の意見を求め、又は食品安全委員会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-1 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the Effective Date, in the following cases, publicize the purport, contents and other necessary matters, and broadly seek the opinions of the public, or hear the opinions of the Food Safety Commission: machine translation, not official **一** 新食品衛生法第五十条の二第一項又は第五十条の三第一項の厚生労働省令を定めようとするとき。 suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-1/item-1 when intending to establish the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 50-2, paragraph (1) or Article 50-3, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act. machine translation, not official **第二項** 厚生労働大臣は、施行日前においても、新食品衛生法第八条第一項の規定により同項に規定する指定成分等を指定しようとするとき、又は新食品衛生法第十八条第三項ただし書に規定する人の健康を損なうおそれのない量を定めようとするときは、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、広く国民の意見を求め、又は食品安全委員会若しくは薬事・食品衛生審議会の意見を聴くことができる。 suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the Effective Date, when intending to designate designated ingredients, etc. prescribed in Article 8, paragraph (1) of the New Food Sanitation Act pursuant to that paragraph, or to establish the quantity unlikely to harm human health prescribed in the proviso to Article 18, paragraph (3) of the New Food Sanitation Act, publicize the purport, contents and other necessary matters, and broadly seek the opinions of the public, or hear the opinions of the Food Safety Commission or the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council. machine translation, not official **第三項** 厚生労働大臣は、第三号施行日前においても、第三号新食品衛生法第五十四条の厚生労働省令を定めようとするときは、その趣旨、内容その他の必要な事項を公表し、又は広く国民の意見を求めることができる。 suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-3 The Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may, even before the item (iii) Effective Date, when intending to establish the Order of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare under Article 54 of the item (iii) New Food Sanitation Act, publicize the purport, contents and other necessary matters, or broadly seek the opinions of the public. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2: 新食品衛生法第八条第一項 → 食品衛生法 第八条第一項 (Article 8, paragraph (1)), art-8/par-1 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-8/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-8/par-1 - suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-2: 新食品衛生法第十八条第三項 → 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 - suppl-4301-46/art-11/par-3: 第三号新食品衛生法第五十四条 → 食品衛生法 第五十四条 (Article 54), art-54 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/art-54 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/art-54 ## Cited by 2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 食品衛生法 附則第一条第一項第一号（施行期日） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-1/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-1/par-1/item-1 - 食品衛生法 附則第十三条第一項（政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/food-sanitation-act/suppl-4301-46/art-13/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/322AC0000000233/suppl-4301-46/art-13/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 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-006, translated 2026-11-03 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch food-sanitation-act-20261102T225259-008, translated 2026-11-03 - This site's parser, version 220 — 食品衛生法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-11-02