G/TBT/N/MEX/441  
11 December 2018  
(18-7812) 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 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:  
Comité Consultivo Nacional de Normalización de Innovación, Desarrollo, Tecnologías e 
Información en Salud  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for  
Innovation, Development, Technology and Information i n Health), Lieja número 7,  
1er. piso, Colonia Juárez, Demarcación Territorial Cuauhtémoc, Código Postal 06696, 
Ciudad de México, Tel. : (55) 55 53 69 30 an d 52 86 17 20, Fax : 52 86 17 26, Email: 
jose.meljem@salud.gob.mx   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 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) : Ultrasound 
clinics  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document : Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY -NOM-028-SSA3 -2018, Regulación de los servicios de salud . 
Para la práctica de la ultrasonografía diagnóstica  (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY -
NOM-028-SSA3 -2018: Regulation of health services . Practice of diagnostic sonography) 
(6 pages, in Spanish)  
6. Description of content : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard is mandatory for 
medical care facilities offering an d providing ultrasound services to aid diagnosis, and for 
the health officers in charge of such clinics, and the professional and technical health staff 
involved in the provision of these services.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgen t problems where 
applicable : The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the organizational 
and operational requirements to be met by establishments providing diagnostic 
sonography services, and the criteria to be fulfilled by health professio nals and technicians 
in order to deliver these diagnostic services in a safe and efficient manner.  
8. Relevant documents:  
• Mexican Standard NOM-004-SSA3 -2012, del expediente clínico ; 
• Mexican Standard  NOM-010-SSA2 -2010, para la prevención y el control de la  
infección por Virus de la Inmunodeficiencia Humana ; G/TBT/N/MEX/441  
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  • Mexican Standard NOM-016-SSA3 -2012, que establece las características 
mínimas de infraestructura y equipamiento de hospitales y consultorios de 
atención médica especializada ; 
• Mexican Standard NOM-087-ECOL-SSA1 -2002, Protección ambiental -Salud 
ambiental - Residuos peligrosos biológico -infecciosos - Clasificación y 
especificaciones de manejo ; 
• Mexican Standard NOM-240-SSA1 -2012, Instalación y operación de la 
tecnovigilancia . 
9. Proposed date of adoption : To be determined.  
Proposed date of entry into force : The notified Standard will enter into force 60 
calendar days after its publication in the Official Journal.  
10. Final date for comments : 26 January 2 019 
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point [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 for Competitiveness 
and Standardizati on) 
Dirección General de Normas  (Directorate -General of Standards)  
Tel.: (+52) 55 5729 9100, Ext. 43244  
Fax: (+52) 55 5520 9715  
Website : http://www.econ omia.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 at:  
http://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5544841&fecha=2 7/11/2018  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/MEX/18_6331_00_s.pdf