Editing Tequila (section)

=== Norma Oficial Mexicana ===
[[File:Agave tequilana0.jpg|thumb|right|A young agave plant]]
The ''[[Norma Oficial Mexicana]]'' (NOM) applies to all processes and activities related to the supply of agave, production, bottling, marketing, information, and business practices linked to the [[Distilled beverage|distilled alcoholic beverage]] known as tequila. Tequila must be produced using agave of the species [[Agave tequilana|Tequilana Weber Blue variety]], grown in the federal states and municipalities indicated in the Declaration.

Furthermore, the NOM establishes the technical specifications and legal requirements for the protection of the Appellation of Origin of "Tequila" in accordance with the current General Declaration of Protection of the [[Appellation of origin|Appellation of Origin]] of "Tequila", the Law, the Industrial Property Law, the Federal Consumer Protection Law and other related legal provisions.<ref name="tequila.net 2">{{cite web | url = http://www.tequila.net/faqs/tequila/what-is-the-appellation-of-origin-for-tequila.html | title = The Appellation of Origin for Tequila | access-date = 2013-03-12 | archive-date = 2013-09-27 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130927140201/http://www.tequila.net/faqs/tequila/what-is-the-appellation-of-origin-for-tequila.html | url-status = live }}</ref>

All authentic, regulated tequilas will have a NOM identifier on the bottle. The important laws since 1990 were NOM-006-SCFI-1993, the later updates NOM-006-SCFI-1994 and NOM-006-SCFI-2005 and the most recent revision published on December 13, 2012, NOM-006-SCFI-2012.

The number after NOM is the distillery number, assigned by the government. NOM does not indicate the location of the distillery, merely the parent company or, in the case where a company leases space in a plant, the physical plant where the tequila was manufactured.