G/TBT/N/BDI/319, G/TBT/N/KEN/1381  
G/TBT/N/RWA/822, G/TBT/N/TZA/893  
G/TBT/N/UGA/1733  
 
23 February 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:  BURUNDI, KENYA, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
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:   
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)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS  768:2023, 
Fortified milled maize (corn) products — Specification; (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for fortified milled maize (corn) products prepar ed from the 
grains of common maize (Zea mays L.) 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; Cost saving and 
productivity enhancement . 
8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 2001.13, Determination of Vitamin A (Retinol) in food — Liquid 
Chromatography  
2. AOAC 2004.05, Total folates in cereal and cereal foods — Microbiological Assay -
Trienzyme Procedure  
3. AOAC  2011.14, Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, 
Phosphorus, Sodium and Zinc in fortified food products. Microwave Digestion and 
Inductively Coupled Plasma -Optical Emission Spectromatry  G/TBT/N/BDI/319 • G/TBT/N/KEN/1381 • G/TBT/N/RWA/822 • G/TBT/N/TZA/893 • 
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  4. AOAC 944.02, Official Method for Determination of Iro n in flour. 
Spectrophotometric method  
5. AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate  
6. AOAC 953.17, Thiamine (vitamin B1) in grain products. Fluorometric (rapid) 
method  
7. AOAC 961.15, Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine pyridoxal pyridoxamine) in food extract s. 
Microbiological method  
8. AOAC 965.22, Sorting Corn Grits Sieving Method Modified  
9. AOAC 970.65, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) in foods and vitamin preparations  
10. AOAC 975.41, Niacin and niacinamide in cereal products. Automated method  
11. CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
12. EAS 2, Maize grains — Specification  
13. EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification  
14. EAS 39, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry  
15. EAS 44, Milled maize (corn) products — Specification  
16. EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  
17. EAS 804, Claims on food — General requirements  
18. EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims — Requirements  
19. EAS 900, Cereals and Pulses - Sampling  
20. EAS 901, Cereals and Pulses – Test Methods  
21. ISO 11085,  Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs — 
Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method  
22. ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of beta -glucu ronidase -positive Escherichia coli — Part 2: 
Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl beta -
D-glucuronide  
23. ISO 20634, Infant formula and adult nutritionals — Determination of vitamin B12 
by reversed phase high  
performance liqui d chromatography (RP -HPLC)  
24. 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  
25. ISO 2171, Cereal s, pulses and by -products — Determination of ash yield by 
incineration  
26. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms —Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
27. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination crude fibre Content -
General method  
28. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
29. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1 —Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
30. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products -- Determination of cadmium 
content -- Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  G/TBT/N/BDI/319 • G/TBT/N/KEN/1381 • G/TBT/N/RWA/822 • G/TBT/N/TZA/893 • 
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  31. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chai n — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp.  
32. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
33. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
34. ISO 7305, Milled cereal produc ts -- Determination of fat acidity  
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:   
Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
Toll Free: 3250  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rs b.gov.rw  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
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