G/TBT/N/MEX/386  
4 January 2018  
(18-0020) 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 Salud  (Ministry of Health)  
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:  
Technically substantiated comments may be submitted in writing, in electronic form and in 
Spanish, to the National Advisory Committee on Standardization for the Regulation and 
Promotion of Health ( Comité Consulti vo Nacional de Normalización de Regulación y 
Fomento Sanitario ) at:  
Oklahoma n úmero 14, planta baja  
Colonia Nápoles, código  postal 03810, Ciudad de México  
Tel.: 50805200, Ext. 1333  
Email: rfs@cofepris.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) : Processed 
meat products and meat pr ocessing establishments (ICS number : 67.120.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-213-SSA1 -2017, Productos y servicios . Productos 
cárnicos procesados y los establecimientos dedicados a su proceso . Disposiciones y 
especificaciones sanitarias . Métodos de prueba  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -
NOM-213-SSA1 -2017: Products and services . Processed meat products and meat 
processing establishments . Sanitary provisions and speci fications . Test methods) 
(20 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified Standard is binding throughout Mexican territory for 
natural and legal persons involved in the processing or importation of meat products.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable : Protection of animal and plant life and health . The draft Standard establishes 
the sanitary provisions and specifications applicable to processed meat products and meat 
processing establi shments.  
8. Relevant documents:  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -051-SCFI/SSA1 -2010, Especificaciones generales de 
etiquetado para alimentos y bebidas no alcohólicas preenvasados . Información 
comercial y sanitaria  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -051-SCFI/SSA1 -2010: 
General specifications for the labelling of pre -packaged food and non -alcoholic 
beverages . Commercial and health information)  G/TBT/N/MEX/386  
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   Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -086-SSA1 -1994, Bienes y servicios . Alimentos y 
bebidas no alcohólicas con modificaciones en su co mposición . Especificaciones 
nutrimentales  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -086-SSA1 -1994: Goods and 
services . Foodstuffs and non -alcoholic beverages the composition of which has 
been modified . Nutritional specifications)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -092-SSA1 -1994, Bienes y servicios . Método para la 
cuenta de bacterias aerobias en placa  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -092-SSA1 -
1994: Goods and services . Plate count method for aerobic bacteria)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -117-SSA1 -1994, Bienes y Servicios . Método de  
prueba para la determinación de cadmio, arsénico, plomo, estaño, cobre, fierro, 
zinc y mercurio en alimentos, agua potable y agua purificada por espectrometría 
de absorción atómica  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -117-SSA1 -1994: Goods and 
services . Test met hod for determining the presence of cadmium, arsenic, lead, tin, 
copper, iron, zinc or mercury in food, drinking water and purified water, using 
atomic absorption spectrometry)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -130-SSA1 -1995, Bienes y servicios . Alimentos 
envasad os en recipientes de cierre hermético y sometidos a tratamiento térmico . 
Disposiciones y especificaciones sanitarias  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -130-
SSA1 -1995: Goods and services . Food packaged in hermetically sealed containers 
and heat -treated . Sanitar y provisions and specifications)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -194-SSA1 -2004, Productos y servicios . 
Especificaciones sanitarias en los establecimientos dedicados al sacrificio y faenado 
de animales para abasto, almacenamiento, transporte y expendio . Especifi caciones 
sanitarias de productos  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -194-SSA1 -2004: Products 
and services . Sanitary specifications for establishments engaged in the slaughter 
and preparation of animals for the market, and the storage, transport and retailing 
of the products thereof . Sanitary specifications)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -201-SSA1 -2015, Productos y servicios . Agua y hielo 
para consumo humano, envasados y a granel . Especificaciones sanitarias  (Mexican 
Official Standard NOM -201-SSA1 -2015: Products and services . Water and ice for 
human consumption, packaged and in bulk)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -210-SSA1 -2014, Productos y servicios . Métodos de 
prueba microbiológicos . Determinación de microorganismos indicadores . 
Determinación de microorganismos patógeno s (Mexican Official Standard NOM -
210-SSA1 -2014: Products and services . Microbiological test methods . 
Determination of indicator microorganisms . Determination of pathogenic 
microorganisms)  
 Norma Oficial Mexicana NOM -251-SSA1 -2009, Prácticas de higiene para el proceso 
de alimentos, bebidas o suplementos alimenticios  (Mexican Official Standard NOM -
251-SSA1 -2009: Hygiene practices for the processing of foods, drinks and dietary 
supplements)  
9. Proposed date of adoption : 180 calendar days after publication in the Official Journal.  
Proposed date of entry into force : 180 calendar days after publication in the Official 
Journal.  
10. Final date for comments : 60 calendar days after publication in the Official Journal.  G/TBT/N/MEX/386  
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  11. Texts available from : National enquiry poin t [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad (Under -Secretariat of Competitiveness 
and Standardization)  
Dirección General de Normas  (General Directo rate of Standards)  
Av. Puente de Tecamachalco 6, Piso 2, Lomas de Tecamachalco  
Sección Fuentes, C.P. 53950  
Naucalpan de Juárez, Estado de México  
Tel.: (+52 55) 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
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=5508581&fecha=21/12/2017  
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