G/TBT/N/MEX/297  
18 December 2015  
(15-6712)  Page: 1/2  
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 governme nt involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):  
2. Agency responsible:  
Secretaría de Salud  (Ministry of Health) 
Comisión Federal para la Protección contra Riesgos Sanitarios , COFEPRIS (Federal 
Commission for Protection against Health Risks) 
Name and address (including telephon e 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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Regulación y Fomento Sanitario  (National 
Advisory Committee on Standardization for the Regulation and Promotion of Health) Oklahoma número 14, planta baja, Colonia Nápoles 
03810, México, D.F. 
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): Glazed 
pottery ware, glazed ceramic ware, porcelain ware and glass ware (ICS: 81) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: PROY-NOM-231-
SSA1-2015, Artículos de alfarería vidriada, cerámica vidriada, porcelana y artículos de 
vidrio. Límites máximos permisibles de plomo y cadmio solubles. Método de ensayo  (Draft 
Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-231 -SSA1-2015: Glazed pottery ware, glazed 
ceramic ware, porcelain ware and glass ware. Maximum permissible soluble lead and 
cadmium limits. Test method) (13 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content: The notified draft Standard establishes the maximum permissible 
soluble lead and cadmium limits for glazed pottery ware, glazed ceramic ware, porcelain ware and glass ware that are used as containers for, and in the processing of, food and 
beverages.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: This Standard is mandatory throughout national territory for persons 
responsible for domestically produced and imported glazed pottery and ceramic ware, 
porcelain ware and glass ware that are used as containers for, and in the processing of, 
food and beverages. 
The Standard applies to all kinds of glazed  pottery and ceramic ware and glass ware, 
whether or not coloured or decorated on either the inside or outside (rim and edge), or 
both. 
It cancels Mexican Official Standard NOM- 231-SSA1-2002: Glazed pottery ware, glazed 
ceramic ware and porcelain ware. Soluble lead and cadmium limits. Test method, published in the Mexican Official Journal on 2 March 2007. G/TBT/N/MEX/297 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
 NOM-004-SSA1-2013: Salud ambiental. Limitaciones y especificaciones sanitarias 
para el uso de los compuestos de plomo  (Environmental health. Restrictions on and 
sanitary requirements for the use of lead compounds) 
 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  (Goods 
and services. Test method 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)  
9. Proposed date of adoption: - 
Proposed date of entry into force: This Mexican Official Standard will enter into force 
60 days after its publication in the Official Journal.  
10. Final date for comments: 15 February 2016 
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresse s, if available, of other body:  
Secretaría de Economía 
Subsecretaría de Competitividad y Normatividad 
Dirección General de Normas Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43217 Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715 
Website: http://www.economia-noms.gob.mx/?P=144  
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or sofia.pacheco@economia.gob.mx  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.p hp?codigo=5419981&fecha=15/12/2015  
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