G/TBT/N/MWI/86  
14 February 2023  
(23-1042) 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:   
Director General  
Malawi  Bureau of Standards  
P.O Box 946  
Blantyre  
Malawi  
Telephone:+265 887 376 444  
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 addition, where applicable):  (HS 
code(s): 10); (ICS code(s): 67.080)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DMS 542:2022, 
Sorghum grains – Specification; (3 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Malawi standard specifies the quality and grading 
requirements and methods of sampling and test for sorghum grains of varieties (cultivar s) 
grown from Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench intended for human consumption, i.e., ready 
for its intended use as human food, presented in packaged form or sold loose from the 
package directly to the consumer. It does not apply to other products derived from 
sorghum grains.  
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:   
1. MS 19: Labeling of prepacked foods – General standard;  
2. MS 21: Food and food processing units – Code of hygienic conditions;  
3. MS145: Cereals and cereal products — Sampling:  G/TBT/N/MWI/86  
 
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  4. MS 302: Contaminants and toxins in food and feed – General standard;  
5. MS 612: Sorghum – Deter mination of tannin content;  
6. MS 1796: Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods;  
7. AOAC Official Method 2001.04: Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup.  
8. ISO 520: Cereals and pulses — Determination of the mass of 1000 grains;  
9. ISO 711: Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content (Basic 
reference method)  
10. ISO 712: Cereals and cereal product s — Determination of moisture content — 
Routine reference method;  
11. ISO 5498: Agricultural food products — Determination crude fibre content — 
General method;  
12. ISO 5984: Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash ;  
13. ISO 6561 -1: Fruits, vegetables and d erived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry;  
14. ISO 6561 -2: Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption  spectrometry;  
15. ISO 6579: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp;  
16. ISO 6637: Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of mercury 
content — Flameless atomic absorption method ;  
17. ISO 6888-1: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species);  
18. ISO 7251: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique;  
19. ISO 7971: Cereals — Determination of bulk density, called mass per hectolitre — 
Part 2: Method of traceability for measuring instruments through reference to th e 
international standard instrument;  
20. ISO 11085: Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs — 
Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method 
; 
21. ISO 16050: Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the t otal content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance liquid chromatographic method;  
22. ISO 20483: Cereals and pulses — Determination of the nitrogen content and 
calculation of the crude protein content — Kjeldah l method;  
23. 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  
24. ISO 27085: Animal feeding st uffs – Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP - AES. 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  G/TBT/N/MWI/86  
 
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  10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] 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:+265 887 376 444  
Fax: +265 1 870 756  
Email: info@mbsmw.org  
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