Administration of Food Safety
- Introduction
- Structure and Responsibilities of the Department of Food Safety
- Outline of the Administration of Food Safety
Topics
- Handling of food contaminated by radioactivity(Relating to the accident at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant) (PDF:174KB)(PDF:101KB)
- Imported Foods Inspection Service Home Page
- Positive List System for Agricultural Chemical Residues in Food
- Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy(BSE)
- Food Additives
- Food Produced by Recombinant DNA Techniques
- Food with Health Claims, Food for Special Dietary Uses, and Nutrition Labeling
- Food Poisoning Statistics
- Ministerial Ordinance on Milk and Milk products Concerning Compositional Standards, etc. (PDF:404KB)
- Abattoir Law(PDF:237KB)
- Poultry Slaughtering Business Control And Poultry Inspection Law(PDF:270KB)
Links
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- Food Sanitation Law
http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail/?id=12&vm=04&re=01&new=1 - Specifications and Standards for Food, Food Additives, etc. Under The Food Sanitation Act
http://www.jetro.go.jp/en/reports/regulations/pdf/testing2009dec-e.pdf - The Food Safety Basic Law
http://www.fsc.go.jp/sonota/fsb_law1807.pdf
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