G/TBT/N/GRD/31  
11 September 2023  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  GRENADA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Grenada Bureau of Standards  
Queen's Park  
P.O. Box 2036  
St. George's  
Grenada  
Tel: (473) 440 -5886/6783  
Fax: (473) 440 -5554 
Email: gdbs@spiceisle.com  
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:   
Grenada Bureau of Standards  
Queen's Park  
P.O. Box 2036  
St. George's  
Grenada  
Tel: (473) 440 -5886/6783  
Fax: (473) 440 -5554 
Email: gdbs@spiceisle.com  
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):  Wheat or 
meslin flour. (HS code(s): 1101)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified d ocument:  Wheat Flour - 
Specification; (21 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This is the first revision of GDS 12:1992 – Specification for 
Wheat Flour  
This draft standard applies and specifies the characteristics of wheat flour (also called 
flour, white flour, or enriched flour) for human consumption prepared from Triticum 
aestivum  L. (common wheat) or, Triticum compactum  Host (club wheat) or mixtures 
thereof which is pre -packaged for sale or sold in bulk. It is applicable to self -rising flour.  
The draft standard is not applicable to any product made from durum wheat (hard wheat, 
Triticum durum  Desf.), singly or in combina tion with other wheat, whole meal, whole 
wheat flour or semolinas, farina milled from Triticum aestiuvum  L. (common whet), G/TBT/N/GRD/31  
 
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  Triticum compactum  Host (club wheat), or mixtures thereof, wheat flour to be used in 
brewing, forthe production of starch or gluten, or for non -food industrial use, wheat flour 
in which the protein content has been reduced, wheat flour after the milling process which 
has been subjected to special treatments other than bleaching or drying and wheat flour 
which has added ingredients other  than those stipulated in this standard.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Compulsory Status has been recommended to protect the consumer or user 
against danger to health and safety, to require adequate information to be given to the 
consumer or user and to ensure quality in goods traded.; Protection of human health or 
safety  
8. Relevant documents:   
Draft Standard Processed Foods Wheat Flour Specification  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 April 2024  
Proposed date of entry into force:  30 April 2024  
10. Final date for comments:  7 December 2023  
11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Grenada Bureau of Standards (GDBS)  
P.O. Box 2036  
Queen's Park  
St. George's  
Tel: +(473) 440 -5886; +(473)440 6783  
Fax: +(473) 440 -5554 
Email: gdbs@spiceisle.com