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the NOMs and products or services to be imported must also comply with the specificationsestablished in such standards.Having explained the above, in the second part of this chapter we will discuss thelabeling and advertising requirements of products to be sold in Mexico. In the third partwe will examine the procedures for opening establishments, processes for productionand importation of products or raw materials, and the sale of the products that are subjectto sanitary regulations.2. Labeling Requirements178C H A P T E R XLabeling requirements vary according to the product. For each category of products thereare labeling NOMs. Thus, food, alcoholic beverages, non-alcoholic beverages, toys, tobacco,textiles, electric devices, beauty products, to only mention a few categories, each have aspecific NOM that applies to them with regard to labeling. 1 Therefore, it would be impossiblein this chapter to cover the labeling requirements for each category of products. 2However, there are other NOMs that contain the general guidelines and minimumrequirements relating to commercial information on products such as those cited below.2.1. NOM-050-SCFI-1994The purpose of NOM-050-SCFI-1994, Información comercial, disposiciones generales para productos(Commercial Information, General Provisions for Products) is to establish the commercialinformation that products manufactured nationally or abroad that are to be sold toconsumers in Mexico must contain and to establish the characteristics of such information.__________1It is easy to find out the labeling requirements and other NOMs that apply to each category of products.The Ministry of Economy has published a NOM catalog with an easy method of consultation.See www.economia-noms.gob.mx.2To illustrate the degree of specificity of the NOMs regarding the labeling of products, we mention the threefollowing examples:• NOM-015/1-SCFI/SSA-1994: safety and commercial information on toys, safety of toys and school articles,limits on bioavailability of metals in items covered with paints and inks, chemical specifications, and testingmethods (seguridad e información comercial en juguetes, seguridad de juguetes y artículos escolares, límitesde biodisponibilidad de metales en artículos recubiertos con pinturas y tintas, especificaciones químicas y métodosde prueba);• NOM-020-SCFI-1997: commercial labeling information for leather and naturally tanned skins and syntheticor artificial materials with that appearance, shoes, Moroccan goods, as well as products made withsuch materials (información comercial-etiquetado de cueros y pieles curtidas naturales y materiales sintéticos oartificiales con esa apariencia, calzado, marroquinería, así como los productos elaborados con dichos materiales);• NOM-139-SCFI-1999: commercial labeling information for natural vanilla extract (vanilla spp), derivatives,and substitutes (información comercial-etiquetado de extracto natural de vainilla (vanilla spp), derivadosy sustitutos).