Chapter I General Provisions
Article 3(1) A food business operator (meaning a person or corporation who is engaged in collecting, producing, importing, processing, cooking, storing, transporting, or selling food or additives, or producing, importing, or selling apparatus, or containers and packaging, or a person or corporation who continuously provides food to many and unspecified persons at schools, hospitals or other facilities; the same applies hereinafter), on their own responsibility, must endeavor to ensure the safety of the food, additives, apparatus, or containers and packaging which they collect, produce, import, process, cook, store, transport, sell, provide to many and unspecified persons, or use in business (hereinafter referred to as "food for sale, etc."), and for that purpose, they must endeavor to obtain the knowledge and skills necessary to ensure the safety of food for sale, etc., ensure the safety of raw materials of food for sale, etc., conduct voluntary inspections of food for sale, etc., and take other necessary measures.
Art.4 (4) The term "apparatus" as used in this Act 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; provided, however, that this term does not include machines, equipment, and other articles used for harvesting food in agriculture and fisheries.
Chapter III Apparatus, and Containers and Packaging
Article 15
Apparatus, and containers and packaging used in conducting business must be clean and sanitary
Article 18
(1) From the viewpoint of public health, the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare may establish standards for apparatus, or containers and packaging, or the raw materials thereof to be served for the purpose of sale or to be used in business, or may establish the criteria for the production methods thereof, by hearing the opinions of the Pharmaceutical Affairs and Food Sanitation Council.
(2) When the standards or criteria have been established pursuant to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the apparatus, or containers and packaging that does not conform to the standards must not be sold, produced or imported for the purpose of sale, or used in business; raw materials that do not conform to the standards must not be used; and the apparatus, or containers and packaging must not be produced by methods that do not conform to the criteria.
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Chapter V Import Notification
Article 32
Importers have to submit a written import notification, containing (excerpt):
(i) the name and address (for a corporation, its name and the location of its principal office);
(ii) whether the cargoes are food, additives, apparatus, containers and packaging, or toys, the names of the articles, loaded quantity, loaded weight, type of packaging, and intended use, and when the cargoes have any marks and numbers affixed, the marks and numbers
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Apparatus are listed in Appended Table 12 - 1
- Machines used for producing foods
- Apparatus or containers and packaging made of aluminum
- Apparatus or containers and packaging made of stainless steel
- Apparatus or containers and packaging made of colorless glass