A continuous rotary filling and packaging machine that fills a container body with liquid contents, covers the container body filled with the liquid contents with a lid, and seals the container body and the lid to produce a sealed container, the filling and packaging machine comprising: a filling device that fills the container with the liquid contents while the container body rotationally moves; a lid supplying device that supplies a molded lid to an upper end opening of the container body that is filled with the liquid contents and transferred from the filling device; and a sealing device including a seal working surface for heat-sealing the molded lid to the upper end opening of the container body to produce the sealed container while the container body on which the molded lid is placed rotationally moves, and a lifting and lowering means including a cam mechanism for lifting and lowering a container table on which the container body is placed, the lifting and lowering means being configured such that the molded lid on the container body and the seal working surface come into press-contact with each other at a top dead point of the container table; characterized by comprising a lid detecting device disposed on a downstream side of the lid supplying device; wherein the sealing device comprises a container table lowering control mechanism that does not lift a container table of a container whose container body does not have the molded lid placed thereon or properly placed thereon as determined by the lid detecting device, to the top dead point, wherein the container table lowering control mechanism of the sealing device includes a fluid pressure cylinder for controlling the container table to be lowered against lifting of the container table by an urging force of a spring and said lowering control mechanism is attached to be suspended from a center of a lower surface of a container placing plate and includes a member to be regulated having a reverse T-shape in cross section provided at a lower end of a lifting and lowering regulating rod extending to pierce through a center of a rising and falling body to be capable of sliding against the rising and falling body, the fluid pressure cylinder being attached to a cylindrical bracket of a placing table such that a cylinder rod faces up, and a substantially C-shaped regulating member provided at a distal end of the cylinder rod, and the container table lowering control mechanism performs control to retain a state in which the cylinder rod retracts, whereby rising of the container table is regulated by the regulating member via the member to be regulated. a filling device that fills the container with the liquid contents while the container body rotationally moves; a lid supplying device that supplies a molded lid to an upper end opening of the container body that is filled with the liquid contents and transferred from the filling device; and a sealing device including a seal working surface for heat-sealing the molded lid to the upper end opening of the container body to produce the sealed container while the container body on which the molded lid is placed rotationally moves, and a lifting and lowering means including a cam mechanism for lifting and lowering a container table on which the container body is placed, the lifting and lowering means being configured such that the molded lid on the container body and the seal working surface come into press-contact with each other at a top dead point of the container table; characterized by