G/TBT/N/RWA/191  
 
20 November 2018  
(18-7287) 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: RWANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible: Rwanda Standards Board (RSB)  
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:   
Rwanda Standards Board  
KK 15 Rd, 49  
P.O.BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw   
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [ X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [   ], 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): Meat, 
meat products and other animal produce (ICS 67.120).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DRS 185:2018 
Code of hygienic practice for meat (73 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: 1.1 The scope of this code covers hygiene provisions for raw 
meat, meat preparations and manufactured meat from the time of live animal production 
up to the point of retail sale. It further develops 'The Recommended Rwanda Code of 
Practice: General Principles of Food Hygiene’ in respect of these products. Wh ere 
appropriate, the Annex to that code (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System 
and Guidelines for its Application) and the Principles for the Establishment and Application 
of Microbiological Criteria for Foods are further developed and applied in the specific 
context of meat hygiene.  
1.2 For the purposes of this code, meat is that derived from domestic ungulates, 
domestic solipeds, domestic birds, lagomorphs, farmed game, farmed game birds 
(including ratites) and wild game. This Code of Practice  may also be applied to other types 
of animals from which meat is derived, subject to any special hygienic measures required 
by the competent authority. Further to general hygiene measures applying to all species 
of animal as described above, this code als o presents specific measures that apply to 
different species and classes of animals, e.g. wild game killed in the field.  
1.3 The hygiene measures that are applied to the products described in this code, shall 
take into account any further measures and food  handling practices that are likely to be 
applied by the consumer. It shall be noted that some of the products described in this 
code may not be subjected to a heat or other biocidal process before consumption.  G/TBT/N/RWA/191  
 
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  1.4 Traditional practices may result in depar tures from some of the meat hygiene 
recommendations presented in this code when meat is produced for local trade.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• CAC/GL 20, Principles for food import and export inspection and certification  
• CAC/GL 21, Principles for the establishment and application of microbiological 
criteria for food  
• CAC/GL 24, General Guidelines for Use of the Term "Halal"  
• RS 184, Requirements for Hazar d Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) system.  
• RS 201, Abattoir - Basic requirements  
• RS CAC/GL 21, Principles for the establishment and application of microbiological 
criteria for foods.  
• RS CAC/GL 26, Guidelines for the design, operation, assessment an d accreditation 
of food import and export inspection and certification systems.  
• RS CAC/RCP 1, General principles of food hygiene  
• RS CAC/RCP 23, Recommended Rwanda code of hygienic practice for low -acid 
canned foods  
• RS EAS 12, Drinking (Potable) water - Specification  
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 [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
KK 15 Rd, 49  
Toll Free: 3250  
Tel: +250 788303492  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw   
P.O.BOX 7 099, Kigali, Rwanda  
 
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