G/TBT/N/MEX/268  
15 January 2014  
(14-0191)  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 Economía (Ministry of the Economy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and 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 Normalizac ión de Seguridad al Usuario, Información 
Comercial y Prácticas de Comercio  (National Advisory Committee on Standardization for 
User Safety, Commercial Inform ation and Trade Practices) 
Avenida Puente de Tecamachalco número 6 
Colonia Lomas de Tecamachalco 
Sección Fuentes, Naucalpan de Juárez Código postal 53950, Estado de México 
Tel.: +52 55 5229-6100, Ext. 43222 
Fax: +52 55 5520-9715 Email: rodrigo.arreguin@economia.gob.mx ; liliana.samperio@economia.gob.mx  
 and/or salvador.franco@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion  
3. Notified under Arti cle 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], other:   
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN wher e applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Cream 
(International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.100.99) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  Proyecto de 
Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-193-SCFI-2013, Crema y cremas preparadas -
Especificaciones y métodos de prueba (Draft Mexican Official Standard 
PROY-NOM-193-SCFI-2013: Cream and prepared creams - Specifications and test methods) (5 pages, in Spanish).  
6. Description of content:  The notified draft Mexican Official Standard establishes the 
trade descriptions of the various types of cream and prepared creams marketed 
in Mexico, the physicochemical specifications that these products must meet in order 
to use such descriptions, the test methods used to demonstrate product compliance and the commercial information that must be displayed on product packaging.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer protection G/TBT/N/MEX/268 
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  8. Relevant documents:  
- Norma Oficial Mexicana (Mexican Official Standard) NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010: 
Especificaciones generales de etiquetado para alimentos y bebidas no alcohólicas 
preenvasados - Información comercial y sanitaria  (General specifications for 
the labelling of pre-packaged food and non-alcoholic beverages - Commercial and health information); 
- Mexican Official Standard NOM-155-SCFI-2012: Leche - Denominaciones, 
especificaciones fisicoquímicas, información comercial y métodos de prueba  
(Milk - Descriptions, physicochemical specifications, commercial information 
and test methods); 
- Mexican Official Standard NOM-243-SSA1-2010: Productos y servicios, leche, fórmula 
láctea, producto lácteo combinado y derivados lácteos. Disposiciones y especificaciones sanitarias. Métodos de prueba  (Goods and services. Milk, 
milk formula, combined dairy products and dairy byproducts. Health provisions and specifications); 
- Mexican Official Standard NOM-251-SSA1-2009: Prácticas de higiene para el proceso 
de alimentos, bebidas o suplementos alimenticios  (Hygiene practices for the 
processing of foods, drinks and dietary supplements); 
- CODEX STAN 288-1976: Codex Standard for Cream and Prepared Creams. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:   Not applicable. 60 calendar days after its publication 
as a final Mexican Official Standard in the Diario Oficial de la Federación  
(Official Journal), with the exception of the 
commercial information established in Chapter 7 of the notified draft Standard. 
The commercial information established 
in Chapter 7 of the notified draft Standard will enter into force 180 calendar days after 
its publication as a final Standard in the 
Official Journal.  
10. Final date for comments:  24 February 2014 
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 5229-6100, Ext. 43217 Fax: +52 55 5520-9715 
Email: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comuni dad-negocios/c ompetitividad-
normatividad/normalizacion/catalogo-mexicano-de-normas  
Text available online at: 
http://www.dof.gob.mx/index.p hp?year=2013&month=12&day=24 
http://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2014/tbt/MEX/14_0109_00_s.pdf