G/TBT/N/MWI/93  
15 February 2024  
(24-1364) Page: 1/2 
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:   
Director General  
Malawi  Bureau of Standards  
P.O Box 946  
Blantyre  
Malawi  
Telephone:+265 887376/444  
Fax: +265 1 870 756  
Email: info@mbsmw.org  
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 addit ion, where applicable):  Wheat or 
meslin flour (HS code(s): 1101); Food technology (ICS code(s): 67)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DMS 30:2023, 
Fortified wheat flour – Specification; (8 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Malawi standard specifies the requirements, test 
methods and sampling for fortified wheat flour prepared from common wheat (Triticum 
aestivum L.) or club wheat (Triticum compactum Host), or their mixtures 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; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. MS 19: Labelling of prepacked foods – General standard  
2. MS 21: Food and food processing units – Code of hygienic conditions;  
3. MS 55: Wheat grain – Specification;  G/TBT/N/MWI/93  
 
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  4. MS 144: Agricultural food products – Determination crude fibre content – General 
method;  
5. MS 145: Cereals and cereal products – Sampling;  
6. MS 149: Cereals, pulses and derived products – Determination of ash content;  
7. MS 188: Edible salt – Specification;  
8. MS 237: Food additives – General standard;  
9. MS 302: Contaminants and toxins in food and feed – General standard;  
10. MS 624: Nutrition labelling – Guidelines;  
11. MS 625: Nutrition claims – General standard;  
12. ISO 1871: Food and feed products – General  guidelines for the determination of 
nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method;  
13. ISO 4833: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of microorganisms – Colony -count technique at 30 degrees C;  
14. ISO 6540: Maize – Determinati on of moisture content (on milled grains and on 
whole grains);  
15. ISO 6579: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the detection of Salmonella spp;  
16. ISO 6888 (all parts): Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizont al 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus 
aureus and other species);  
17. 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;  
18. 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;  
19. 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 ; and  
20. ISO 2591 -1: Test sieving – Part 1: Methods using test sieves of woven wire cloth 
and perforated metal plate  
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:   
Director General  
Malawi Bureau of Standards  
P.O Box 946  
Blantyre  
Malawi  
Telephone:+265 887376/444  
Fax: +265 1 870 756  
Email: info@mbsmw.org  
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