G/TBT/N/MEX/410  
28 May  2018 
(18-3168) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member : MEXICO  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible : Secretaría de Agricultura, Ganadería, Desarrollo Rural, Pesca y 
Alimentación  (Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food)  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers, email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:  
Scientifically and technically substantiated comments may be submitted, in Spanish, to the 
followin g address : Dirección General de Salud Animal del Servicio Nacional de Sanidad, 
Inocuidad y Calidad Agroalimentaria  (Directorate -General of Animal Health, National 
Agriculture and Food Health, Safety and Quality Service), Avenida Boulevard Adolfo Ruíz 
Cortines 5010, Colonia Insurgentes Cuicuilco, Delegación Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, 
Código Postal 04530, or by email to: irma.vargas@senasica.gob.mx  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading . ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable) : Meat, bone 
or mixed flour or meal, whether of domestic or imported origin, animal feed  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
modificación a la  Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -060-ZOO-1999, Especificaciones 
zoosanitarias para la transformación de despojos animales y su empleo en la alimentación 
animal  (Draft  amendment to Mexican Official Standard NOM -060-ZOO-1999, Animal Health 
Specifications for the Processing of Animal Offal and its Use in Animal Feed) (9 pages, in 
Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The Standard is binding throughout national territory.  
It applies to natural and legal persons responsible for establishments processing or 
rendering tissues of animal origin, slaughter, cutting and processing plants that produce 
offal, whether or not they have their own rendering plant, and establishments mar keting 
meat, bone or mixed flour or meal, whether of domestic or imported origin, as well as 
those engaged in the manufacture and marketing of animal feed, whether commercially or 
for their own use.  
The Standard does not apply to fat, processed tallow, mil k protein, gelatine, fish flour, 
feather meal or animal blood and its components.  
The enforcement of this Standard is the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food and the governments of the federative 
entities, Mexico City and the municipalities, within the scope of their respective powers and 
territories and in accordance with the respective coordination agreements.  
Implementation of this Standard is the responsibility of the Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food, through the National Agriculture and G/TBT/N/MEX/410  
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  Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (SENASICA) and its Directorates -General and 
Regional Representatives, within the scope of their respective powers and territories.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : The purpose of this Standard is to establish specifications to regulate the use 
and processing of animal offal and by -products, and the marketing of flour and meal of 
animal origin and their use in animal feed, in order to ensure that these processes do not 
constitute an animal health risk with regard to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy.  
8. Relevant documents:  
 Mexican Official Standard NOM -008-SCFI-2002, Sistema  General de Unidades de 
Medida  (General system of units of measurement), published in the Official Journal 
on 27 November 2 002. 
 Mexican Official Standard NOM -009-ZOO-1994,  Proceso sanitario de la carne  
(Sanitary procedures for meat), published in the Offic ial Journal on 1 6 November 
1994, as amended on 1 2 November 1 996 and 3 1 July 2 007. 
 Mexican Official Standard NOM -012-ZOO-1994, Especificaciones para la regulación 
de productos químicos, farmacéuticos, biológicos y alimenticios para uso en 
animales o consumo  por estos  (Specifications for the regulation of chemical, 
pharmaceutical, biological and food products for animal use or consumption), 
published in the Official Journal on 2 7 January 2 004. 
 Mexican Official Standard NOM -022-ZOO-1996, Características y espe cificaciones 
zoosanitarias para las instalaciones, equipo y operación de establecimientos que 
comercializan productos químicos, farmacéuticos, biológicos y alimenticios para 
uso en animales o consumo por estos  (Animal health characteristics and 
specificati ons for the facilities, equipment and operations of establishments which 
market chemical, pharmaceutical, biological and food products for animal use or 
consumption), published in the Official Journal on 3 1 January 1 996. 
 Mexican Official Standard NOM -031-ZOO-1995, Campaña Nacional contra la 
Tuberculosis Bovina (Mycobacterium bovis)  (National campaign against bovine 
tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium bovis )), published in the Official Journal on 8 March 
1996, as amended on 2 7 August 1 998. 
 Mexican Official Standard  NOM-041-ZOO-1995, Campaña Nacional contra la 
Brucelosis en los animales  (National campaign against animal brucellosis), 
published in the Official Journal on 2 0 August 1 996, as amended on 6 February 
2004. 
 Acuerdo por el que se da a conocer la campaña y las  medidas zoosanitarias que 
deberán aplicarse para el diagnóstico, prevención, control y erradicación de la 
Influenza Aviar Notificable, en las zonas del territorio de los Estados Unidos 
Mexicanos en las que se encuentre presente esa enfermedad  (Decision an nouncing 
the campaign and animal health measures for the diagnosis, prevention, control 
and eradication of notifiable avian influenza in areas of the United Mexican States 
where this disease is present), published in the Official Journal on 2 1 June 2 011. 
 Acuerdo mediante el cual se dan a conocer en los Estados Unidos Mexicanos, las 
enfermedades y plagas exóticas y endémicas de notificación obligatoria de los 
animales terrestres y acuáticos  (Decision listing the exotic and endemic terrestrial 
and aquatic ani mal diseases and pests notifiable in the United Mexican States), 
published in the Official Journal on 4 May 2 016. 
 Modificación a la Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -046-ZOO-1995, Sistema Nacional 
de Vigilancia Epizootiológica  (Amendment to Mexican Official Stand ard NOM -046-
ZOO-1995, National monitoring system for epizootics), published in the Official 
Journal on 2 9 January 2 001. 
 Acuerdo por el que se exenta del Certificado Zoosanitario de Movilización de bienes 
de origen animal procedentes de establecimientos Tipo Inspección Federal, así 
como a las vísceras, despojos y harinas de origen animal provenientes de 
establecimientos dedicados al sacrificio de animales y de procesamiento de bienes G/TBT/N/MEX/410  
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  de origen animal, o que tengan como destino plantas de rendimiento autor izadas o 
internacionales reconocidas  (Decision exempting the following from the 
requirement of an animal health certificate for transit : goods of animal origin from 
Federal Inspection Type establishments, as well as entrails, offal and flour and 
meal of an imal origin leaving slaughterhouses and animal product processing 
facilities or going to authorized, or recognized international, rendering plants), 
published in the Official Journal on 3 1 May 2 013. 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force : 30 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal as a final standard  
10. Final date for comments : 22 July 2 018 (60 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal)  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry poi nt [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía  (Ministry of the Economy)  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad (Under -Secretariat of Competitiveness 
and Standardization)  
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad -negocios/normalizacion/catalogo -
mexicano -de-normas  
Email:  
normasomc@economia.gob.mx /sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx /jose.ramosr@economia.
gob.mx  
Text available from:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_ detalle.php?codigo=5523934&fecha=24/05/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_2709_00_s.pdf