G/SPS/N/KEN/153  
 
26 January 2022  
(22-0645) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  KENYA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Kenya Bureau of Standards  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  Dairy based desserts  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  DKS 1517:2021 Dairy based desserts - Specification . 
Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  16 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/SPS/KEN/22_0977_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This Kenya Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test 
methods for dairy based desserts intended for direct consumption or further processing as 
described in Section 3 of this Standard.  
This Standard does not cover dairy ice cream which is covered in KS EAS 70.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] Internat ional Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   G/SPS/N/KEN/153  
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
• AOAC 999.10, Official method for lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, and iron in foods 
Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry after microwave Digestion  
• KS EAS 12, potable water - Specification  
• KS CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in foods  
• KS CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
• KS EAS 38, Labelling of pre - packaged foods - General requirements  
• KS EAS 39, General principles for food hygiene  
• KS EAS 803, Nutrition labelling - Requirements  
• KS 1552, Code of hygienic practice for milk and milk products  
• KS ISO 707, Milk and milk products - Guidance on sampling  
• KS ISO 750; Fruit and vegetable products - Determination of t itratable acidity  
• KS ISO 2446, Milk - Determination of fat content  
• KS ISO 3594, Milk fat - Detection of vegetable fat by gas -liquid chromatography of 
sterols (Reference method)  
• KS ISO 3595, Milk fat - Detection of vegetable fat by the phytosteryl acetate t est 
• KS ISO 3728, Ice -cream and milk ice - Determination of total solids content 
(Reference method)  
• KS ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coliforms - Colony count technique  
• KS ISO 4833 -1, Micr obiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms - Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the pour 
plate technique  
• KS ISO 5764, Milk - determination of freezing point - Thermistor cryoscope method 
(Reference method)  
• KS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp  
• KS ISO 6611, Milk and milk products - Enumeration of colony forming units of 
yeasts and/or moul ds - Colony -count technique at 25 degrees C  
• KS ISO 6731, Milk, cream and evaporated milk - Determination of total solids 
content (Reference method)  
• KS ISO/TS 6733; Milk and milk products - Determination of lead content - Graphite 
furnace atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• KS ISO 6888 -3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) - Part 3: Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
• KS ISO 8262 -3; Milk products and milk -based foods - Determination of fat content 
by the Weibull -Berntrop gravimetric method (Reference method) - Part 3: Special 
cases  
• KS ISO 8968 -4, Milk and milk products - Determination of nitrogen content - Part 4: 
Determ ination of protein and non -protein nitrogen content and true protein 
content calculation (Reference method)  
• KS ISO 14501, Milk and milk powder - Determination of aflatoxin M1 content - 
Clean -up by immunoaffinity chromatography and determination by high -
performance liquid chromatography  
• KS ISO 22662, Milk and milk products - Determination of lactose content by high -
performance liquid chromatography (Reference method)   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : March 2022  
Proposed dat e of publication (dd/mm/yy) : March 2022  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
[X] Trade facilitating measure   G/SPS/N/KEN/153  
 
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  12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 27 March 2022  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [X]  National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
available) of other body:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)  
P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya  
Tel: +(254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258  
Fax: +(254) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org  
Website: http://www.kebs.org  
13. Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [X]  National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if available) of other body:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS)  
P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya  
Tel: +(254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258  
Fax: +(254) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org  
Website: http://www.kebs.org