これら我が国に輸入される食品等（以下「輸入食品等」という。）の現状を踏まえ、平成19年度において、厚生労働省本省（以下「本省」という。）及び検疫所は、残留基準が設定されていない農薬、動物用医薬品又は飼料添加物（以下「農薬等」という。）が、人の健康を損なうおそれのない量として定められる量を超えて残留する食品の販売等が原則禁止されるいわゆるポジティブリスト制度(以下「ポジティブリスト制度」という。）の着実な施行のため、輸入時の検査項目の拡充を図るなど、食品衛生法（昭和22年法律第233号。以下「法」という。）第28条の規定に基づくモニタリング検査や法第26条の規定に基づく検査命令等の輸入時における監視指導を強化するとともに、輸出国における衛生対策の適正化を推進するため、残留農薬等に係る法第11条違反等の事例が多い輸出国を中心に衛生対策の推進を求めたほか、牛海綿状脳症（以下「BSE」という。）等に係る輸出国の衛生管理についても現地調査を行った。例文帳に追加

In light of actual conditions of the foods, etc. imported into Japan (hereinafter referred to as“the imported foods”), in FY 2007, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (hereinafterreferred to as “the MHLW”) and quarantine stations reinforced the import inspections such asmonitoring inspection based on the provision of Article 28 of the Food Sanitation Law (Law No.233 of 1947; hereinafter referred to as “the Law”), or inspection orders based on the provisionof Article 26 of the Law by means of expanding the inspection items, etc. for the steadyimplementation of the so-called “Positive List system” that prohibits in principle sales of foodscontaining agricultural chemicals, veterinary drugs or feedstuff additives (hereinafter referred toas “the agricultural chemicals, etc.”) that have no established residual standards over theamounts defined as posing no potential risks to human health.They also requested thepromotion of sanitation measures to be taken by the exporting countries that were mainlyresponsible for cases that violated Article 11 of the Law concerning residual agriculturalchemicals, etc. in order to prompt exporting countries to take appropriate sanitation measures.Moreover, they conducted on-site inspections on sanitation control in exporting countries withrelation to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (hereinafter referred to as “BSE”), etc. - 厚生労働省