MEX/380
WTO/TBT
MX Mexique
  • 90 - Instruments et appareils d'optique, de photographie ou de cinématographie, de mesure, de contrôle ou de précision; instruments et appareils médico-chirurgicaux; parties et accessoires de ces instruments ou appareils
2018-01-15
2017-12-12

Breathalysers (devices for measuring the level of alcohol in the blood) (national tariff heading 90268099)

Proyecto de Norma Oficial Mexicana PROY-NOM-214/1-SCFI-2017, Instrumentos de medición-Alcoholímetros evidenciales-Especificaciones y métodos de prueba (Draft Mexican Official Standard PROY-NOM-214/1-SCFI-2017: Measuring instruments - Evidential breathalysers - Specifications and test methods) (16 pages, in Spanish)

The notified draft Mexican Official Standard applies to evidential breathalysers that are imported into or marketed in the territory of the United Mexican States and used to detect and quantify alcohol in exhaled air. These devices are used to establish, for preventive, referential or police purposes, the quantity of ingested alcohol that is permitted for a given activity. The notified text also establishes a method for determining the level of alcohol in the blood by measuring the amount of alcohol in exhaled air.