The current Act prescribes that no business operators such as manufacturers and processors of food, food service business operators and food sellers shall subdivide, transport, display or keep products, foods or raw materials thereof whose shelf life has expired, for the purpose of cooking and selling, sell or use such products for manufacturing or processing foods.

However, there are insufficient grounds for restricting or imposing penalties against such acts as cases where a manufacturer or processor of food stores, a food service business operator cooks and sells, food, etc., whose shelf life has expired.

In addition, the current Act has no grounds for the officials concerned to seize and dispose of the foods whose shelf life has expired and that are displayed and stored for the purpose of selling or using, thereby making it difficult to take proactive administrative measures.

Accordingly, this Amendment aims to prohibit the acts of storing food, etc., whose shelf life has expired, for the purpose of cooking and selling as well as manufacturing and processing, and to prepare grounds for the officials concerned to seize and dispose of the relevant foods, etc. (Article 44, paragraph 1, subparagraph 3 and Article 72, paragraph 1).

Prohibit the acts of storing foods, etc., whose shelf life has expired, for the purpose of cooking and selling as well as manufacturing and processing (Article 44).