Anwendungsbereich des Regulatory Essentials
Geltende Rechtsvorschriften:
The Food Sanitation Act defines 2 categories for food contact articles:
a) Apparatus/Utensils = means tableware, kitchen utensils, and other machines, equipment, and other articles which are used for collecting, producing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting, displaying, delivering, or consuming food or additives and which come into direct contact with food or additives;
b) Containers and Packaging = articles which contain or wrap food or additives and are presented "as is" when delivering food or additives.
Food Contact Articles are regulated in Chapter III (Articles 15 - 18)
Definition of "Business" = collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting, or selling food or additives, or the act of producing, importing, or selling apparatus, or containers and packaging, in the course of trade; provided, however, that the term does not include the business of harvesting food in agriculture and fisheries.
Definition of Article 18-3 materials (Food Sanitation Act)
Article 1: The material specified by Cabinet Order referred to in Article 18, paragraph (3) of the Food Sanitation Act (hereinafter referred to as the "Act") is synthetic resin.
Food Labelling Act - Content:
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Food Labeling Standards
Chapter III Measures against Improper Labeling
Chapter IV Demand for Injunction and Report
Chapter V Miscellaneous Provisions
Chapter VI Penal Provisions
MHLW notifications on positive lists for UCP (Utensils, Containers, Packaging (for food contact))
Kommentar bezüglich der Vergleichbarkeit mit der EU-Gesetzgebung:
The EU legislation (several regulations and directives) is not comparable with the Japanese specific "Positive List"....