G/TBT/N/KEN/1410  
30 March 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:  KENYA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
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:   
P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya  
Telephone: + (254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258  
Fax: + (254) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Acorns, 
horse -chestnuts, marc a nd other vegetable materials and vegetable waste, vegetable 
residues and by -products of a kind used in animal feeding, whether or not in the form of 
pellets, n.e.s. (HS code(s): 2308); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  KS 2816: 2023 
Feed grade yeast products — Specification; (9 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Kenya standard specifies requirements and methods of 
test for feed grade yeast products used in anim al feeds.  
This standard covers live yeast, inactive yeast (hydrolyzed/ autolyzed yeast) yeast cell 
wall and yeast culture.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and calculation 
of crude protein content — Part 1: Kjeldahl method  
ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid  
ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: 
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  ISO 6491, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of phosphorus content — Spectrometric 
method  
ISO 6492, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of fat content  
ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moisture and other volatile matter 
content  
content  
ISO 6865, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude fibre content — Method with 
intermediate filtration  
ISO 6869, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of the contents of calcium, copper, iron, 
magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium and zinc — Method using atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
ISO 5984:2022 Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  
KS ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs -— Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — Part 2: Colony -count 
technique at 44 degrees C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro-3-indolyl beta -D-glucuronide.  
KS ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection of Salmonella spp.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 June 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  23 May 2023  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
WTO/TBT National Enquiry Point  
P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya  
Telephone: + (254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258  
Fax: + (254) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/KEN/23_8416_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2023/TBT/KEN/23_8492_00_e.pdf