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ORGANIZATION   
G/TBT/N/MEX/233 
11 June 2012 
 (12-3062) 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade Original: Spanish 
  
 
NOTIFICATION 
 
The following notification is being circ ulated 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 Economía  (Ministry of the Economy) 
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers and e-mail 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 Information and Trade Practices) Av. Puente de Tecamachalco No. 6 Col. Lomas de Tecamachalco Sección Fuentes, Naucalpan de Juárez 
Código postal 53950, Estado de México 
Tel.: 5729 9100, Ext. 43222 Fax: 5520 9715 E-mail: rodrigo.arreguin@economia.gob.mx  
 maria.medinam@economia.gob.mx  and/or 
 salvador.franco@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.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):   Milk with vegetable fat 
(International Classification for Standards (ICS) code 67.100) 
5. Title, number of pages and lang uage(s) of the notified document:  
PROY-NOM-190-SCFI-2012, Mezcla de leche con grasa vegetal - Denominaciones, 
especificaciones fisicoquímicas, informac ión comercial y métodos de prueba 
(Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY- NOM-190-SCFI-2012:  Blends of milk and 
vegetable fat - Descriptions, physicochemica l specifications, commercial information and 
test methods) (27 pages, in Spanish) 
6. Description of content:   The notified draft Standard covers  the various types of blends of 
milk and vegetable fat marketed in Mexico.  The trade descriptions of such products must 
be consistent with those established in the draft Standard. G/TBT/N/MEX/233 
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  The products concerned are made from milk a nd potable water, or by partially removing 
water and adding edible vegetable oil, edible vegetable fat or a mixture of both, in the 
quantities necessary to ensure that the pr oduct meets the relevant compositional and 
sensory specifications. 
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:  
To establish the various types of blends of m ilk and vegetable fat marketed in Mexico, the 
physicochemical specifications that these pr oducts must meet in order to carry such 
descriptions, the test methods used to dem onstrate their compliance, and the commercial 
information that must be displayed on product packaging. 
8. Relevant documents:  
- CODEX STAN 250-2006:  CODEX Standard for a blend of evaporated skimmed 
milk and vegetable fat. 
- CODEX STAN 251-2006:  CODEX Standard for a blend of skimmed milk and 
vegetable fat in powdered form. 
- CODEX STAN 252-2006:  CODEX Standard for a blend of sweetened condensed 
skimmed milk and vegetable fat. 
9. Proposed date of adoption: 
Proposed date of entry into force:  Not applicable. 
60 calendar days after publication as a final 
Standard in the Official Journal. 
10. Final date for comments:   30 July 2012 
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry  point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and e-mail and website addresses, 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 
E-mail: normasomc@economia.gob.mx  and/or jesus.figueroa@economia.gob.mx  
Website: http://www.economia.gob.mx/comunidad- negocios/normalizacion/catalogo-
mexicano-de-normas  
 
Text available online at:  http://dof.gob.mx/index.php? year=2012&month=05&day=31  and 
http://members.wto.org/crnattach ments/2012/tbt/MEX/12_2165_00_s.pdf