Regulatory Outline in Japan

Established in 1947, the Japanese Food Sanitation Law, which describes standards and criteria of foods, was the first essential law in Japan on food safety. According to this law, meat, eggs, milk, dairy products, fish, and shellfish should not contain any antibiotic or synthetic antibacterial substances. 

In Japan, the principal legal regulations dealing with feed additives and veterinary drugs is the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law established in 1960. Table 11.10 summarizes the compounds currently regulated as medicinal or feed additives by the Pharmaceutical Affairs Law and the Law Concerning Safety Assurance and Quality Improvement of Feed in Japan (74). 

Class Medicinal Feed additive CIclSS Medicinal Feed additive 

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World Health Organization, in Evaluation of Certain Veterinary Drug Residues in Food, Thirty-sixth Report of the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives, Technical Report Series 799, World Health Organization, Geneva (1990). World Health Organization, in Principles for the Safety Assessment of Food Additives and Contaminants in Food, Environmental Health Criteria 70, World Health Organization, Geneva, p. 75 (1987). 

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