G/TBT/N/MWI/74  
17 March 2022  
(22-2389) 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:  MALAWI   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Malawi 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:   
The Director General  
Malawi Bureau of Standards  
P.O Box 946  
Blantyre  
Malawi  
Telephone:+265 1870 488/0887376/444/445/446/447  
Fax: +265 1 870 756  
Email: mbs@mbsmw.org  
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):  (HS: 1101 
); (ICS: 67.080.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DMS 
1607:2020, Blended flour – Specification Part 1: Wheat and sweet potato blended flour 
(4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:    
This draft proposal specifies the requirements and methods of sampling and test for wheat 
and sweet po tato blended flours prepared from grains of common wheat (Triticum 
aestivum L.) and sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas) chips or a mixture of their flours thereof 
intended for human consumption  
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; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. MS 19: Labelling of prepackaged foods – General stand ard; 
2. MS 21: Food and food processing units – Code of hygienic conditions;  
3. MS 30: Fortified wheat flour – Specification;  
4. MS 55: Wheat grain – Specification;  G/TBT/N/MWI/74  
 
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  5. MS 144: Agricultural food products – Determination of crude fibre content – 
General method;  
6. MS 146: Cereals and cereal products – Sampling.  
7. MS 237: Food additives – General standard;  
8. MS 302: Contaminants and toxins in foods – General standard;  
9. MS 624: Nutrition labelling – Guidelines;  
10. MS 1385: Sweetpotato flour – Specification;  
11. MS 1606: Dried sweetp otato chips – Specification;  
12. MS 1786: Milled cereal products – Determination of fat acidity;  
13. CAG/GL 23: Guidelines for use of nutrition and health claims – Requirements;  
14. AOAC 2001.06: Total fumonisins in corn, competitive direct enzyme -linked 
immunosorbent  assay;  
15. ISO 712: Cereals and cereal products – Determination of moisture content – 
Reference method;  
16. ISO 2171: Cereals, pulses and by -products – Determination of ash yield by 
incineration;  
17. ISO 762: Fruit and vegetable products – Determination of mineral im purities 
content;  
18. ISO 763: Fruit and vegetable products – Determination of ash insoluble in 
hydrochloric acid;  
19. ISO 6579 -1: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method 
for the detection, enumeration and serotyping of salmonella – Part 1: Detection 
of Salmonella spp.;  
20. ISO 16050: Foodstuffs – Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products – High-
performance liquid chromatographic method;  
21. ISO 1664 9-2: 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; and  
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.  
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/MWI/74  
 
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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:   
The Director General  
Malawi Bureau of Standards  
P.O Box 946  
Blantyre  
Malawi  
Telephone:+265 1870 488/0887376/444/445/446/447  
Fax: +265 1 870 756  
Email: mbs@mbsmw.org  
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