DEAS 930: 2018
ICS 55.120
 
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 DRAFT EAST AFRICAN STANDARD 
Paper and board food contact  packaging material — S pecification  
EAST AFRICAN COMMUNITY DEAS 930: 2018 
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 Foreword 
Development of the East 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 goods and services are exchanged 
within the Community will be removed. 
The Community has established an East African Standards Committ ee (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 represent atives from the public and private sector 
organizations in the community.  
East African Standards are developed through Technical Committe es that are representative of key 
stakeholders including government, academia, consumer groups, p rivate sector and other interested parties. 
Draft East African Standards are circulated to stakeholders thr ough the National Standards Bodies in the 
Partner States. The comments received are discussed and incorpo rated before finalization of standards, in 
accordance with the Principles and procedures for development o f East African Standards.  
East African Standards are subject to review, to keep pace with  technological advances. Users of the East 
African Standards are therefore expected to ensure that they al ways have the latest versions of the standards 
they are implementing .  
The committee responsible for this document is Technical Commit tee EASC/TC 066, Packaging . 
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During the preparation of this Standard, reference was made to the following document: 
IS 3263 , Specification for waxed paper for confectionery. 
Acknowledgment is hereby made for the assistance derived from t his source. 
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 Paper and board foo d contact pac kaging material — Specification  
1 Scope 
This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, me thods of sampling and test for paper and 
board food contact packaging material. 
2 Normative references 
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a w ay that some or all of their content constitutes 
requirements of this document. For dated references, only the e dition cited applies. For undated references, 
the latest edition of the refer enced document (including any am endments) applies. 
ISO 287, Paper and board — Determination of moisture content of a lot — Oven-drying method  
ISO 536, Paper and board — Determination of grammage  
ISO 13302, S ensory analysis — Methods for assessing modifications to the flavour of foodstuffs due to 
packaging  
ISO 8784-1, Pulp, paper and board — Microbiological examination — Part 1: Total count of bacteria, yeast, 
mould based on disintegration  
ISO 13914, Soil quality — Determination of dioxins and furans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls by 
gas chromatography with high-resolution mass selective detection (GC/HRMS) 
EAS 880, Waxed paper for packaging of confectionery — Specification  
DEAS 933, Paper and board intended to come into contact with foodstuffs — Determination of formaldehyde 
in an aqueous extract (Under development as CD/K/12: 2018)  
3 Terms and definitions 
For the purposes of this standard, the following term and defin ition apply 
food contact material 
all kinds of paper and board materials and their products expec ted to contact with food, including waxed 
paper, pulp moulding products and food processing and cooking p aper. 
3 Requirements 
3.1 General requirements 
3.1.1  The material shall be: 
a) manufactured from virgin, blended or recycled pulp; 
b) machine glazed; and 
c) not harmful to human health.  
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 3.1.2 The prints shall not bleed if the material is supplied when hea t sealed and printed. Printed surfaces of 
the paper shall not come into contact with the food.  
3.2 Specific requirements 
3.2.1 Physical, chemical and heavy metal contaminants requireme nts  
3.2.1.1 Limits of contaminants 
When tested in accordance with the methods specified in Table 1 , the Paper and board food contact 
Packaging material shall comply with the limits of heavy metal and organic contaminants specified therein. 
Table 1 — Limits of heavy metal and organic pollutants for pape r and board food contact packaging 
material 
S/N Contaminant Paper and 
board 
intended to 
come in 
contact with 
food 
(mg/kg of 
paper/board) Paper for 
filtration 
(mg/kg of 
paper/board)Test method 
i) Cadmium (Cd2+), 
max. 0.5 0.5 
EAS 880 ii) Chromium Cr6+, 
max. 0.05 0.05 
iii) Lead (Pb2+), max. 3.0 3.0 
iv) Mercury (Hg2+), 
max. 0.3 0.3 
v) Pentachlorophenol 
(PCP), max. 0.05 0.05 
vi) Polychlorinated 
biphenyl, max. 2.0 0.5 
vii) Formaldehyde not detected CD/K/12 
viii) Dioxins not detected ISO 13914 
 
3.2.1.2 Assessment of the inhere nt odour of the packaging mater ial 
When tested in accordance to ISO 13302, the paper and board foo d contact packaging material shall be free 
from objectionable odour. 
3.2.1.3 Grammage of the paper 
When tested in accordance with ISO 536 the grammage of the pape r used shall be as agreed to between the 
purchaser and the supplier. A tolerance of ± 5 % shall be appli cable on the nominal substance.  
3.4 Dimensions 
3.4.1 Paper and board food contact packa ging material shall be packag ed in sheet form or rolls. 
3.4.2  The dimensions of the sheet shall be as specified in the marki ng, subject to a tolerance of ± 0.5 % or 
3 mm whichever less is. 
3.4.3 If supplied in reels and tested i n accordance to Annex A, the w idth and diameter of th e reel shall be as 
specified in the marking. The tolerance of ± 6 mm shall be appl ied on the diameter of the reel.  
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 3.5 Microbiological requirements 
Paper and board food contact packaging material shall comply wi th microbiological requirements given in 
Table 2. 
Table 2 — Microbiological limits  for paper and board food conta ct packaging material 
S/N Characteristic Limit Test method 
i. Total plate count, cfu/g, max. 300 
ISO 8784-1 ii. Pseudomonas aeruginosa , cfu/g Not detected in 1 g 
of the product iii. Staphylococcus aureus , cfu/g 
iv. Candida albicans , cfu/g 
v. Escherichia coli , cfu/g 
 
4 Packaging 
Paper and board food contact Packaging material shall be packed  in suitable materials that prevents it from 
contamination and damag e during normal handling, storage and tr ansportation. 
5 Labelling 
5.1 Paper and board food contact packaging material shall be legibl y and indelibly labelled with batch 
number /code or trade mark 
5.2 Labelling on the bulk packaging for paper and board food contac t packaging material, the following 
information shall be legibly and indelibly labelled on bulk: 
a) manufactures/suppliers name or trade mark or both; b) words, “made from virgin pulp, blended and recycled”; 
c) month and year of manufacture; 
d) the grammage of the sheet of paper; 
e) dimension of the sheet of  paper; and f) country of origin/manufacture.  
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 Annex A 
 
(normative) 
Measurement of dimensions 
A.1 Measure to the nearest 0.5 mm, the width, (parallel to the cro ss direction of the paper) of each five test 
specimen taken across full width of five separate rolls and rec ord the average of the results. 
A.2 Measure to the nearest 1 mm, the diameter of each of the five rolls and record the results. Check for 
compliance with 4.4.   
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 Bibliography 
KS 2674, Paper and board food contact Packaging material — Specification  
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