G/TBT/N/KEN/1207  
14 January 2022  
(22-0321) 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:  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 [X], 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):  Dairy 
based desserts — Specification; DAIRY PRODUCE; BIRDS' EGGS; NATURAL HONEY; 
EDIBLE PRODUCTS OF ANIMAL ORIGIN, NOT ELSEWHERE SPECIFIED OR INCLUDED (HS 
04); Milk and processed milk products (ICS 67.100.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DKS 1517:2021 
Dairy based desserts — Specification (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Kenya Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test 
methods for dairy based Desserts intended for direct consumption or further processing 
as described in Section 3 of this Standard. This standard does not cover dairy ice cream 
which is covered in KS EAS 70.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
AOAC 999.10, Official method for lead, cadmium, zinc, copper, and iron in foods Atomic 
Absorption Spectrophotometry after microwave Digestion  
KS EAS 12, potable water - specification  
KS CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in foods  
KS CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
KS EAS 38, Labelling of pre - packaged foods — General requirements  
KS EAS 39, General principles for food hygiene  
KS EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  G/TBT/N/KEN/1207  
 
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  KS 1552, Code of hygienic practice for milk and milk products  
KS ISO 707, Milk and milk products — Guidance on sampling  
KS ISO 750; Fruit and vegetable products - Determination of titratable acidity  
KS ISO 2446, Milk — Determination of fat content  
KS ISO 3594, Milk fat — Detection of vegetable fat by gas -liquid chromatography of 
sterols (Reference method)  
KS ISO 3595, Milk fat — Detection of vegetable fat by the phytosteryl acetate test  
KS ISO 3728, Ice -cream and milk ice — Determination of total solids content (Reference 
method)  
KS ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coliforms — Colony count technique  
KS 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   
KS ISO 5764, Milk — determination of freezing point — Thermistor cryoscope method 
(Reference method)  
KS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp  
KS ISO 6611, Milk and milk products - Enumeration of colony forming units of yeasts 
and/or moulds - Colon y-count technique at 25 degrees C  
KS ISO 6731, Milk, cream and evaporated milk — Determination of total solids content 
(Reference method)  
KS ISO/TS 6733; Milk and milk products -- Determination of lead content -- Graphite 
furnace atomic absorption spectrom etric method  
KS ISO 6888 -3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other 
species) — Part 3: Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
KS ISO 82 62-3; Milk products and milk -based foods -- Determination of fat content by 
the Weibull -Berntrop gravimetric method (Reference method) -- Part 3: Special cases  
KS ISO 8968 -4, Milk and milk products — Determination of nitrogen content — Part 4: 
Determinatio n of protein and non -protein nitrogen content and true protein content 
calculation (Reference method)  
KS ISO 14501, Milk and milk powder — Determination of aflatoxin M1 content — Clean -
up by immunoaffinity chromatography and determination by high -performan ce liquid 
chromatography  
KS ISO 22662, Milk and milk products — Determination of lactose content by high -
performance liquid chromatography (Reference 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  G/TBT/N/KEN/1207  
 
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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) 020 609660/609665  
E-mail: info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
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