G/TBT/N/BDI/320, G/TBT/N/KEN/1382  
G/TBT/N/RWA/823, G/TBT/N/TZA/894  
G/TBT/N/UGA/1734  
23 February 2023  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  BURUNDI, KENYA, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  (HS 
code(s): 10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 1126 -1: 
2023, Fortified Processed Cereal Based Food s (FPCBF) —Specification —Part 
1: For persons of 6 to 59 months; (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for Fortified Processed cereal based foods intended  for persons 
from the age of 6 months up to 59 months.  
This standard does not cover products covered by EAS 72.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the 
environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and 
facilitating trade; Cost saving and productivity enhancement  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 2001.0, Official method for the determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in 
corn and corn flakes  
2. AOAC 944.02, Official method for the determination of Iron in flour, 
Spectrophotometric method  G/TBT/N/BDI/320 • G/TBT/N/KEN/1382 • G/TBT/N/RWA/823 • G/TBT/N/TZA/894 • 
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  3. AOAC 965.33, Official method for the determination  of Peroxide value  
4. AOAC 984.27, Official method for the determination of calcium, copper, iron, 
magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium and zinc in infant 
formula  
5. AOAC 986.18, Determination of Deoxynivalenol in wheat, gas chromatographic 
method  
6. AOAC 992.04, Official method for the determination of Vitamin A in milk and milk 
infant formula  
7. AOAC 999.11, Determination of Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Iron, and Zinc in Foods. 
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry  
8. CODEX STAN 193, General Standard for Contamin ants and Toxins in Food and 
Feed 
9. CODEX STAN 73, Standard for Canned Baby Foods  
10. CODEX STAN 74, Standard for Processed Cereal -Based Foods for Infants and 
Young Children  
11. ISO 16958; Milk, milk products, infant formula and adult nutritionals -- 
Determination of fatty acids composition –Capillary gas chromatographic method.  
12. CAC/GL 21, Principles and Guidelines for the Establishment and Application of 
Microbiological Criteria Related to Foods  
13. CAC/GL 23, Guidelines for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims  
14. CAC/RCP 1, General Principles of Food Hygiene  
15. EAS 38, Labeling of pre -packaged foods combined  
16. EAS 803, Nutritional labeling — Requirements  
17. ISO 11085, Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs —
Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method  
18. ISO 15141 -1, Foodstuffs —Determination of ochratoxin A in cereals and cereal 
products —Part 1: High performance liquid chrom atographic method with silica 
gel clean up  
19. ISO 15214, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of mesophilic lactic acid bacteria —Colony -count technique 
at 30 degrees C  
20. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs —Determination of a flatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products —High-
performance liquid chromatographic method  
ISO 16649 -1; Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of b eta-glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli —Part 1: 
Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using membranes and 5 -bromo -4-chloro -
3-indolyl beta -D-glucuronide  
21. ISO 20483, Cereals and pulses —Determination of the nitrogen content and 
calculation of the crude protein content —Kjeldahl method  
22. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds —Part 2: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0,95  
23. ISO 2171, Ce reals, pulses and by -products —Determination of ash yield by 
incineration  
24. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products —Sampling  
25. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coliforms —Colony -count technique  G/TBT/N/BDI/320 • G/TBT/N/KEN/1382 • G/TBT/N/RWA/823 • G/TBT/N/TZA/894 • 
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  26. ISO 5498, Agricultural food product –Determination of crude fiber content –
General method  
27. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method for 
the detection of Salmonella spp.  
28. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding s tuffs —Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) —Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
29. ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products —Determination of moisture content —
Reference method  
30. ISO 7932, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of presumptive Bacillus cereus —Colony -count technique at 30 
degrees C.  
31. ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs —Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
Toll Free: 3250  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
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