G/TBT/N/RWA/193  
 
21 November 2018  
(18-7304) 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): Alcoholic 
beverages (ICS 67.160.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DRS 343:2018 
Banana based alcoholic beverages - Specification (18 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This Draft Rwanda Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for banana based alcoholic beverages.  
This standard does not apply to urwagwa, banana wine and plant flavoured alcoholic 
beverages.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Quality req uirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• AOAC 986.15, Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Selenium and zinc in human and pet 
foods.  
• AOAC 999.10, Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Iron and Zinc in, Atomic Absorption 
Spectrophotometry  
• ISO 15214, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of mesophilic lactic acid bacteria - Colony -count technique at 
30 degrees C  
• RS 164, Honey - Specification  
• RS CAC/RCP1, General Principles of Food Hygiene  G/TBT/N/RWA/193  
 
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  • RS CODEX STAN 192, General Standard for Food Additives  
• RS EAS 104, Alcoholic Beverages - Method of sampling and testing  
• RS EAS 12, Potable Water - Specification  
• RS EAS 144, Neutral spirit  - Specification  
• RS EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods - General requirements  
• RS ISO 16050, Foodstuffs  - Determination of aflatoxin B1, and cereals, nuts and 
derived products - Highperformance liquid chromatographic method the total 
content of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in  
• RS ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the enumerat ion of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli - Part 
2: Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl 
beta-D-glucuronide  
• RS ISO 17240, Fruit and vegetable products - Determination of tin content - 
Method using flame Atomic A bsorption Spectrometry  
• RS ISO 1842, Fruit and vegetable products - Determination of pH  
• RS ISO 21527 -1 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds - Part 1: Colony count 
technique in products w ith water activity greater than 0,95  
• RS ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs -Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coliforms - Colony -count technique  
• RS ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the 
enumerati on of microorganisms - Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
• RS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain -Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
• RS 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  
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 7099, Kigali, Rwand a 
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