G/TBT/N/MWI/71  
18 March 2022  
(22-2387) 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: 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DMS 30:2021, 
Fortified wheat flour ─ Specification (6 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:    
This draft proposal specifies the requirements and methods of sampling and analysis for 
fortified wheat flour prepared from common wheat (Tri ticum aestivum L.), club wheat 
(Triticum compactum Host.) or a mixture 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: General standard for labelling of prepacked foods;  
2. MS 21: Code of hygienic conditions for food processing units;  
3. MS 55: Wheat grain – Specification;  
4. MS 144: Agricultural food products – Determination of crude fibre content – 
Modified Scharrer method;  
5. MS 145: Cereals and pulses – Methods of sampling as milled products;  G/TBT/N/MWI/71  
 
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  6. MS 148: Cereal and cereal products – Determination of fat content;  
7. MS 149: Cereals, pulses and derived products – Determination of ash;  
8. MS 237: Food additives – General standard;  
9. MS 302: Contaminants and toxins in foods – General standard;  
10. MS 610: Cereals, a nd cereal products – Determination of moisture content 
(Basic reference method);  
11. MS 624: Nutrition labelling – Guidelines;  
12. MS 625: Nutrition claims – Guidelines;  
13. MS 1632: General standard for the labelling of food additives when sold as 
such;  
14. AOAC 965.22: Sorting corn grits. Sieving method;  
15. ISO 1871: Agricultural food products – General directions for the determination 
of nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method;  
16. ISO 4833 -1: Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms – Part 1: Colony count at 30 °C by the pour 
plate technique;  
17. ISO 6579: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.;  
18. ISO 6888 -1: Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species) – Part 1: Method using Baird -Parker agar medium;  
19. ISO 7251: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli – Most 
probable number technique;  
20. ISO 7932/AMD 1: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of presumptive Bacillus cereus – Colony -count 
technique at 30 degrees C – Amendment 1: Inc lusion of optional tests;  
21. 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;  
22. ISO 21527 -2: Microbiology of food and animal feedstuffs – 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  
23. ISO 21872 -1: Microbiol ogy of the food chain – Horizontal method for the 
determination of Vibrio spp. – Part 1: Detection of potentially enteropathogenic 
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus.  
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/71  
 
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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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