G/TBT/N/RWA/412  
20 November 2020  
(20-8376) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  RWANDA   
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 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN  where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Ice cream 
and ice confectionery (ICS 67.100.40)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DRS 446: 2020 
Low fat dai ry ice cream and dairy ices — Specification (11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Rwanda Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for low fat dairy ice cream and dairy ices. This standard does 
not apply to th e product covered I RS EAS 70.  
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; Protecti on of the 
environment; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• AOAC  999.10, Lead, Cadmium, Zinc, Copper, and Iron in Foods Atomic Absorption 
Spectrophotometry after Microwave Digestion  
• ISO 18068; Cotton fibres — Test method for sugar content – Spectrophotometry  
• 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  
• RS CAC/RCP 1, Code of practice — General principle for food hygiene  
• RS CAC/RCP 57, Code of hygienic practice for milk and milk products  G/TBT/N/RWA/412  
 
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  • RS CODEX STA N 192, General standard for food additives  
• RS CODEX STAN 212, Sugars — Specification  
• RS EAS 12, Potable water — Specification  
• RS EAS 22, Butter —Specification  
• RS EAS  49, Milk powders and cream powder — Specification  
• RS EAS 67, Raw cow milk —Specification  
• RS EAS 69, Pasteurized milk —Specification  
• RS ISO 11290 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the detection and enumeration of liste ria monocytogenes — Part 2: 
Enumeration method  
• RS ISO 11866 -1, Milk and milk products — Enumeration of presumptive 
Escherichia coli — Part 1: Most  probable number technique using 4 — 
Methylumberlliferyr — β — D — glucuronide(MUG)  
• RS ISO 14501, Milk and milk  powder — Determination of aflatoxin M1 content — 
Clean -up by immunoaffinitychromatography and determination by high -
performance liquid chromatography  
• RS ISO 3728, Ice -cream and milk ice — Determination of total solid content  
• RS ISO 4832, Microbiology of f ood and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms — Colony Count Technique  
• RS ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
• RS ISO 4833 -2, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 2: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
surface plating technique.  
• RS ISO 5538, Milk and milk products — Sampling — Inspection by attributes  
• RS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp  
• RS ISO 6611, Milk and milk products — Methods of microbi ological examination 
— Part 3: Enumeration of colony — forming units of yeasts and/or moulds — 
colony — count technique at 25o C  
• RS ISO 6888, (all parts) Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — 
Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci 
(Staphylococcus aureus and other species)  
• RS ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus 
aureus and other species) — Part 1: Tec hnique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
• RS ISO 8197, Milk and milk products — Sampling — Inspection by variables  
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  G/TBT/N/RWA/412  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
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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