Dec - 19 - 2019 The deadline to file comments to the “Draft Modification to the Official Mexican Standard NOM-051” for pre-packaged food and non-alcoholic beverages, expired on December 10, 2019. Olivares has already filed comments. The most controversial modification refers to section 4.5.1 of NOM-051-SCFI/SSA1-2010 which states: "The label on the packaging of food and [...]

Nov - 15 - 2019 Within this month, November 2019, two relevant reform acts have been presented before the Mexican Senate, one is addressed to amend the current Industrial Property Law (IPL) and the other to fully enact a new statutory IPL. The proposals were presented by different political parties and one of them has [...]

Nov - 04 - 2019 On Tuesday 1 October 2019, the House of Representatives made a historical decision that will significantly impact the industrial food and beverage business in Mexico. In a unanimous decision of 455 votes in favor of the proposal, and only 3 abstaining, the House voted to approve amendments to the General [...]

Sep - 11 - 2019 During its former administration, the Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (COFEPRIS) issued the general administrative acts listed below, with the alleged purpose of consolidating the criterions for the analysis and prosecution of different advertisement authorizations before such authority: Attention criterions for the prosecution of advertisement authorizations for drugs, [...]

Sep - 11 - 2019 This week some amendments to the Rules for filing applications into the MXPTO were published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, which came into force on September 4, 2019. The main amendment is related to the type of certified copies accepted by the MXPTO in order to recognize the [...]