G/TBT/N/KEN/1250  
16 May 2022  
(22-3786) Page: 1/2 
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:   
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 [  ], 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):  Vegetables 
and derived products  (ICS code(s): 67.080.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DKS 2964 -2022 
Food grade potato starch — Specification; (10 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft Kenyan Standard specifies the requirement s, 
methods of sampling and test for food grade potato starch  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• EAS 38, General standard for the labelling of pre-packaged foods  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
• EAS 103, General standard for food additives  
• EAS 748 Fresh ware potato ─ Specification  
• EAS 900 Cereals and pulses -Sampling  
• ISO 1666, Starch ─ Determination of moisture content ─ Oven -drying method  
• ISO 5809, Starches and derived products ─ Determination of sulphated ash  
• ISO 5810, Starches and derived products ─ Determination of chloride content ─ 
Potentiometric method  G/TBT/N/KEN/1250  
 
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  • ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
• 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  
• ISO 10520, Native starch ─ Determination of starch content ─ Ewers polarimetric 
method  
• ISO 21527 -2 Microbiology of food and animal feeding s tuffs — 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  
• ISO 6579 -1- Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 5498 Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content — 
General method  
• CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed AOAC 943.02, PH of flour. Potentiometric method  
• AOAC 942.15, Titratable Acidity Test Method  
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; 60 days  
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) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
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