健康・医療Food Safety

 Food is essential for people to maintain sustinable and healthy livings. 
  The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) formulates and implements various food safety policies based on scientific principles in collaboration with many relevant bodies including consumers, food business operators and other stakeholders from various fields.

 
 
 

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Adverse Events

Information on adverse events associated with Beni-koji (Red Yeast Rice) related products is available.

Food Sanitation Act Amendment

The amendment of the Food Sanitation Act was promulgated on June 2018.

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Section

Procedures and requirements for importing food in Japan, Annual Imported foods monitoring and guidance plan

Information on Maximum regulatory limits, Instruction to Restrict Distribution, Monitoring tests results

Specifications and Standards, Application for designation of food additives

Information on the Positive List System, Analytical Methods and Guidelines for Import Tolerance application for Pesticides, Animal Feed Additives and Veterinary Drugs

Food poisoning statistics, Information on preventing food poisoning

Procedures for food safety assessment, the list of products undergone evaluation

Information on measures regarding BSE(Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy) for cattle meat

Specifications and Standards, Guidelines for safety assurance in the manufacture

Measures to ensure safety of "health foods" for consumers

Implementation guides for business operators to introduce a food hygiene control system "HACCP"(Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point)

Measures to control contaminants such as methyl mercury, cadmium, dioxins in foods

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Pamphlet and Leaflet

Pamphlet and Leaflet
Measures to Ensure
Food Safety
(PDF:3,078KB)
Information about
Imported Foods
(PDF:990KB)
Food Sanitation Act
Amendment
(PDF:76KB)

Food Safety for Travelers
【English】
(PDF:261KB)
【Spanish】
(PDF:276KB)
【French】
(PDF:280KB)
【Chinese】
(PDF:566KB)
【Korean】
(PDF:267KB)
【Thai】
(PDF:467KB)


 

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Acts and Regulations

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