G/TBT/N/KEN/1625  
21 May 2024  
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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:  KENYA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Kenya 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:   
Kenya Bureau of Standar ds 
WTO/TBT National Enquiry Point P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya Telephone: + 
(254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258 Fax: + (254) 020 609660/609665 E -mail: 
info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Maize or 
corn (HS code(s): 1005); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notifi ed document:  DKS 3010:2024 
Nixtamalized maize products — Specification; (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Kenya Standard specifies the requirements, sampling 
and test methods for nixtamalized maize products prepared from the g rains 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; Protectio n of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. KS EAS 768:2019, Fortified milled maize (corn) products — Specification.  
2. Technical Specifications for the manufacture of: Fortified Nixtamalized Maize Flour 
– Honduras and RBP, version 1, OSCQ, 2018  
3. KS EAS 44 -2019,Milled maize (corn)products — Specification  
4. AOAC 965.22, Sorting Corn Grits Sieving Method Modified  
5. AOAC 2011.14, Calcium, Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Manganese, Potas sium, 
Phosphorus, Sodium and Zinc in fortified food products. Microwave Digestion and 
Inductively Coupled Plasma -Optical Emission Spectrometry  G/TBT/N/KEN/1625  
 
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  6. CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
7. KS EAS 2, Maize grains — Specification  
8. KS EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification  
9. KS EAS 39, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing 
industry  
10. KS EAS 44, Milled maize (corn)products — Specification  
11. KS EAS 768, Fortified Milled Maize (corn) Products - Specification  
12. KS EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  
13. KS EAS 804, Claims on food — General requirements  
14. KS EAS 805, Use of Nutrition and Health Claims — Requirements  
15. KS EAS 900, Cereals and Pulses – Sampling  
16. KS EAS 901, Cereals and Pulses – Test Meth ods 
17. KS ISO 11085, Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs — 
Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method  
18. KS ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enume ration 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. KS ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumerat ion of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count 
technique in products with water activity less than or equal to 0,95  
20. KS ISO 2171, Cereals, pulses and by -products — Determination of ash yield by 
incineration  
21. KS ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determi nation Crude Fibre Content - 
General Method  
22. KS ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of Ash Insoluble in 
Hydrochloric Acid  
23. KS ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1 — Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
24. KS ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products - Determination of 
cadmium content - Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
25. KS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method f or the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
26. KS ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
27. KS ISO 6888 -1, Microbi ology 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  
28. KS ISO 7305, Milled Cereal Products - Determina tion of Fat Acidity  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  31 December 2024  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/KEN/1625  
 
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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:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
WTO/TBT National Enquiry Point P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya Telephone: + 
(254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258 Fax: + (254) 0 20 609660/609665 E -mail: 
info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
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