MEXICO REGULATIONS
General requirements for import
General Law of Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture: This Law provides organizations with responsibilities to ensure food safety and conditions related to food trade and safety for imported food. It also provides guidance on the inspection of imported fisheries and aquaculture products and sampling to be carried out at the border.
You can find the Law at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
Official Mexican Standard NOM-011-PESC-1993: regulating the application of quarantines, to prevent the introduction and spread of certifiable and notifiable diseases, in the importation of live aquatic organisms destined for aquaculture.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=4729290&fecha=16/08/1994#gsc.tab=0
General Law of health: Provides guidance about imported food inspection advice as well as the treatment, destruction, or re-exportation of non-compliant food.
You can find the General Law of health at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf_mov/Ley_General_de_Salud.pdf
Official Mexican Standard NOM-EM-006-PESC-2004: establishing the aquaculture health requirements to produce live and dead aquatic crustaceans and the requirements for their introduction into the United Mexican States.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=677366&fecha=26/01/2004#gsc.tab=0
Additives, contaminants, antimicrobials and residues
Official Mexican Standard NOM-242-SSA1-2009: Provides guidance about additives, contaminants and residues of veterinary drugs, which are permitted to be added to fisheries and aquaculture products in Mexico, their standards and their maximum levels.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.dof.gob.mx/normasOficiales/4295/salud2a/salud2a.htm
Microbiological and organic criteria
Official Mexican Standard NOM-242-SSA1-2009: Provides guidance about microbiological criteria in fisheries and aquaculture products.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.dof.gob.mx/normasOficiales/4295/salud2a/salud2a.htm
Labelling and packaging
Official Mexican Standard NOM-051-SCFI-1994: Provides guidance about the necessary standards for labelling of pre-packaged foods. It, also, provides all the information regarding the mandatory warnings and advisory statements that must be displayed on the label.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
http://legismex.mty.itesm.mx/normas/scfi/scfi051.pdf
Official Mexican Standard PROY-NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2009: Provides additional information on nutritional declaration, on the minimum requirement for listing ingredients and on the declaration of allergens.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5106969&fecha=26/08/2009#gsc.tab=0
Official Mexican Standard NOM-130-SSA1-1995: Provides guidance about the necessary requirements and standards for packaging.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=4901457&fecha=21/11/1997
Traceability
General Law of health: Provides guidance on the recall procedures of imported products that are subject to mandatory inspection at borders.
You can find the General Law of health at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.diputados.gob.mx/LeyesBiblio/pdf_mov/Ley_General_de_Salud.pdf
Official Mexican Standard NOM-062-SAG/PESC-2014: Aims at combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, thereby promoting the sustainability of global fisheries.
You can find the legal text at the following link, only available in Spanish version:
https://www.dof.gob.mx/nota_detalle.php?codigo=5033406&fecha=24/04/2008#gsc.tab=0
Last update: 11/10/2022
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