G/TBT/N/RWA/140  
 
18 April 2018  
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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): Animal 
feeding stuffs (ICS 65.12 0). 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DEAS 903:2017, 
Dairy goat feeds — Specification (26 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and  test for dairy goatfeeds.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of animal or plant life or health; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
 EAS 97, Fishmeal — Specification  
 EAS 230, Maize bran as livestock feed — Specification  
 EAS 231, Bone meal for compounding animal feeds — Specification  
 EAS 232, Maize gluten feed — Specification  
 EAS 233, Ostrich feed — Specification  
 EAS 287, Oil -seed cakes for compounding livestock feed — Specification  
 EAS 353, Wheat bran for animal feeds — Specification  
 IS0 5510, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of available lysine  
 ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and G/TBT/N/RWA/140  
 
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  calculation of crude protein content — Part 1: Kjeldahl method  
 ISO 5983 -2, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and 
calculation of crude protein content — Part 2: Block digestion/steam distillation 
method  
 ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  
 ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs  — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
 ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: 
Titrimetric method  
 ISISO 6492, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of fat content  
 ISO 6493, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of starch content — Polarimetric 
method  
 ISO 6495, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of water -soluble chlorides 
content  
 ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moisture and other volatile 
matter content  
 ISO 6491, Animal feeding stuf fs — Determination of phosphorus content — 
Spectrometric method  
 ISO 6497, Animal feeding stuffs — Sampling  
 ISO 6498, Animal feeding stuffs — Preparation of test samples  
 ISO 6651, Animal feeding stuffs — Semi-quantitative determination of aflatoxin B1 
— Thin-layer chromatographic method  
 ISO 6654, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of urea content  
 ISO 6655, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of soluble nitrogen content after 
treatment with pepsin in dilute hydrochloric acid  
 ISO 6865, Animal feeding stuf fs — Determination of crude fibre content — Method 
with intermediate filtration  
 ISO 6866, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of free and total gossypol  
 ISO 6869, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of the contents of calcium, 
copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium and zinc — Method 
using atomic absorption spectrometry  
 ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other spec ies) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
 ISO 6888 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs ─ Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) ─ Part 2: Technique usi ng rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar 
medium  
 ISO 6888 -3:2003, 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 techni que for low 
numbersISO 7218:1996, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — General 
rules for microbiological examinations  
 ISO 7485, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of potassium and sodium 
contents — Methods using flame -emission spectrometry  
 ISO 9831, Animal feeding stuffs, animal products, and faeces or urine — 
Determination of gross calorific value — Bomb calorimeter method  
 ISO 11290 -1:1996, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes — Part 1: G/TBT/N/RWA/140  
 
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  Detection method  
 ISO 11290 -2:1996, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes — Part 2: 
Enumeration method  
 ISO 13903, Animal feeding stu ffs — Determination of amino acids content  
 ISO 13904, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of tryptophan content  
 ISO 14565, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of vitamin A content — Method 
using high -performance liquid chromatography  
 ISO 14718, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1 content of mixed 
feeding stuffs — Method using high -performance liquid chromatography  
 ISO 14902, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of trypsin inhibitor activity of 
soya products  
 ISO 15914, Animal feeding s tuffs — Enzymatic determination of total starch 
content  
 ISO 17375, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1  
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, Rwanda  
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