EAS 58 -2:2021  
ICS 65.120  
 
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 DRAFT EAST AFRICAN STANDARD  
Compounded dog food — Specification — Part 2: 
Complementary food   
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY  
 EAS 58 - 2: 2021  
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 Foreword  
Development of the Eas t African Standards has been necessitated by the need for harmonizing requirements 
governing quality of products and services in the East African Community. It is envisaged that through 
harmonized standardization, trade barriers that are encountered when g oods and services are exchanged 
within the Community will be removed.  
The Community has established an East African Standards Committee  (EASC)  mandated to develop and 
issue East African Standards  (EAS) . The Committee is composed of representatives of the National 
Standards Bodies in Partner States, together with the representatives from the public and private sector 
organizations  in the community .  
East African Standards are developed through  Technical Committees that are representative of key 
stakeholders  including government, academia, consumer groups, private sector and other interested parties. 
Draft East African Standards are circulated to stakeholders through the National Standards Bodies in the 
Partner States. The comments received are discussed and incorporated before finalization of standards, in 
accordance with the Principles and procedures for development of East African Standards.  
East African Standards are subject to review, to keep pace with technological advances. Users of the East 
African St andards are therefore expected to ensure that they always have the latest versions of the standards 
they are implementing .  
The committee responsible for this document is Technical Committee EASC /TC 001, Animal feeds and 
feeding stuffs . 
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 Compounded dog food — Specification — Part 2: 
Complementary food   
1 Scope  
This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for complementary dog 
food.  
2 Normative references   
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content constitutes 
requirements of this document.  For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, 
the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.  
ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moisture and other volatile  matter content  
ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and calculation of crude protein 
content — Part 1: Kjeldahl method  
ISO 6492, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of fat content  
ISO 6865, Animal feeding stuffs — Determ ination of crude fibre content — Method with intermediate filtration  
ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  
ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: Titrimetric method  
ISO 6491, Animal feeding stu ffs — Determination of phosphorus content — Spectrometric method  
ISO 6495 , Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of water -soluble chlorides content  
ISO 27085 , Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, 
iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP -AES 
ISO 6497, Animal feeding stuffs — Sampling  
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 16654, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the detection of 
Escherichia coli O157  
ISO 6651 , Animal feeding stuffs — Semi -quantitative determination of aflatoxin B1 — Thin-layer 
chromato graphic methods  
ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 
in cereals, nuts and derived products — High-performance liquid chromatographic method   
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 ISO 14718, Animal feeding stuffs — Determina tion of aflatoxin B1 content of mixed feeding stuffs — Method 
using high -performance liquid chromatography  
ISO 17375, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1  
3 Terms and definitions   
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply . 
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:  
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp  
complementary dog food   
compo und dog food that has a high content of certain nutrients but not sufficient for a ration and so is used in 
combination with other food   
4 Requirements   
4.1 General requirements   
Complementary dog food shall be:  
a) either dry or wet, raw or pre -cooked ; 
b) free from rancidity, musty odour, toxic ingredients, adulterants, mould and insect infestation; and  
c) Palatable.  
4.2 Specific requirements  
Complementary dog food shall comply with the specific requirements given in Table 1 when tested in 
accordance with the test methods specified therein.  
Table 1 — Specific requirements for complimentary dog food   
S/N Parameter  Requirement  Test method  
i.  Metabolisable energy, kcal/kg, min.  2 200  ISO 6496  
ii.  Moisture contenta, % m/m, max.  85 ISO 6496  
iii.  Crude protein, % m/m, min.  5 ISO 5983 -1 
iv.  Crude fat, % m/m, min.  2 ISO 6492  
v.  Crude fibre, % m/m, max.  7 ISO 6865  
vi.  Acid insoluble ash, % m/m, max.  8 ISO 5984  
vii.  Total ash, % m/m, max.  12 ISO 6490 -1 
viii.  Calcium, g/kg  0.20 - 1.0 ISO 6491  
ix.  Phosphorous, g/kg  0.01 - 1.0 ISO 6495  
x.  Sodium, g/kg, max.  0.1 ISO 7485  
xi.  Chloride, g/kg, max.  0.2 ISO 27085  
a Dry dog food shall not contain more than 15 % of moisture content.   
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5 Feed additives  
Complementary dog food may have feed additives established by the Codex Stan 192.  
6 Contaminants  
6.1 Pesticid e residues  
Complementary dog food shall comply with the maximum pesticide residue limits established by the Codex 
Alimentarius Pesticide Database.  
6.2 Heavy metals  
Complementary dog food shall comply with those maximum limits for heavy metals established in CODEX 
STAN 193.  
6.3 Aflatoxin  
Complementary dog food shall comply with the maximum limits for aflatoxins given in Table 2 when tested in 
accordance with the test methods specified therein.  
Table 2 — Limits for aflatoxin in complementary dog food  
S/N Parameter  Maximum limit  
µg/kg  Test method  
i.  Total aflatoxins  10 ISO 16050  
 
ii.  Aflatoxin B1  5 ISO 6651  
ISO 14718  
ISO 17375  
7 Hygiene  
7.1 Complementary dog food shall be produced and handled in accordance with CAC/RCP 54.  
7.2 Complementary dog food shall comp ly with the microbiological limits given in Table 3 when tested in 
accordance with the test methods specified therein.  
Table 3 — Microbiological limits for complementary dog food  
S/N Microorganism  Maximum limit  Test method  
i.  Salmonella  Absent  ISO 6579 -1 
ii.  Escherichia coli  Absent  ISO 16654   
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 8 Packaging  
Complementary dog food shall be packaged in suitable containers that are of sufficient strength, and 
sufficiently sealed so as to withstand reasonable handling without tearing, bursting or falling open. The 
containers shall be clean and not previously used.  
9 Labelling  
In addition to the requirements given in EAS 38, each package shall be legibly and indelibly labelled with the 
following information:  
a) name of the food as “Complementary dog food”;  
b) name and physic al address of the manufacturer;  
c) declared proportions of crude protein, crude fibre, crude fat;  
d) additives, if included;  
e) net weight in metric units;  
f) directions for use;  
g) batch number/lot identification;  
h) manufacturing date;  
i) storage instructions; and  
j) expiry dat e/“Best before” date.  
10 Sampling  
Sampling shall be done in accordance with ISO 6497.   
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 Annex  A 
(informative)  
 
Complementary dog food ingredients   
A.1 General  
The following ingredients may be used in the manufacture of complementary dog food:  
A.2 Grain produ cts 
 
— Maize flour  
 
— Wheat flour  
 
— Oat flour  
 
— Pollard  
 
— Barley  
 
— Wheat bran  
 
— Wheat germ  
 
— Rice 
 
— Sorghum  
 
— Maize germ meal  
 
— Maize bran  
 
A.3 Animal products  
 
— Bonemeal  
 
— Blood meal  
 
— Meat/bonemeal  
 
— Meat meal  
 
— Offal meals (treated)  
 
— Dried skimmed milk  
 
— Dry whey  
 
— Cheese meal   
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— Poultry by -products (excluding manure)  
 
— Hydrolysed feather meal  
 
— Fishmeal  
 
— Whole milk  
 
 
A.4 Plant products (other than cereal based)  
 
— Soybean meal  
 
— Alfalfa meal (lucerne meal) - dried grass meal  
 
— Potatoes (solanum tuberosum)  
 
A.5 Industrial by -produc ts 
 
— Sunflower cakes  
 
— Brewer's yeast and dried grains  
 
— Sugarcane molasses  
 
A.6 Other ingredients  
 
— Common salt  
 
— Dicalcium phosphate (flourine content not to exceed 0.2 %  
 
— Calcium lactate  
 
— Limestone  
— Vitamin and mineral premixes.  
  
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 Annex  B 
(informative)  
 
Requirements for trace elements and vitamins in complementary dog 
food   
Table B.1 — Trace elements in complementary dog food  
S/N Mineral (dry basis)  Limit  
mg/kg  
i.  Iron 32.0 – 80.0 
ii.  Copper  3.0 – 7.0 
iii.  Manganese  5.0 – 7.0 
iv.  Zinc 35.0 – 80 
v.  Iodine  0.15 – 1.55 
 
Table B.2 — Vitamins in complementary dog fo od 
S/N Vitamin (dry basis)  Minimum limit  
i.  Vitamin A, IU/kg  5 000.0  
ii.  Vitamin E, IU/kg  50.0 
iii.  Riboflavin (B2), mg/kg  1.0 
iv.  Vitamin D, IU/kg  500.0  
v.  Thiamin (B1), m g/kg 1.0 
vi.  Pantothenic acid, mg/kg  10.0 
vii.  Niacin, mg/kg  11.4 
viii.  Pyridoxine (B6), mg/kg  1.0 
ix.  Folic acid, mg/kg  0.18 
x.  Biotin, mg/kg  0.10 
xi.  Vitamin (B12), mg/kg  0.022  
xii.  Choline, mg/kg  1 200.0  
  
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