G/TBT/N/RWA/86  
 
9 January 2018  
(18-0161) 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: +250 252 586 103/582945  
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): 
DRS 369: 2017 
Sugar and sugar products (ICS 67.180.10).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Edible ice lollies – 
Specification (13 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: This preliminary draft standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and  test methods for edible ice lollies intended for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
AOAC 932.12, Solids (Soluble) in Fruits and Fruit Products  
AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food. Silver diethyldithiocarbamate  
AOAC 983.20, Mercury (methyl) in fish and shellfish, Gas chromatographic method  
AOAC 999.10, Lead, cadmium, zinc, copper and iron in food, Atomic Abso rption 
Spectrophotometry  
RS CAC/RCP 1, General Principles for Food Hygiene  
RS CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
RS CODEX STAN 212, Sugars – Specification  G/TBT/N/RWA/86  
 
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  RS EAS 12, Potable Water – Specification  
RS EAS 38, General standard for labeling of  prepackaged foods  
RS ISO 16649 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli – Part 1: Colony -count 
technique at 44 degrees C using membranes and 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl Beta -D-
glucuronide  
RS ISO 1842, Fruit and vegetable products – Determination of pH  
RS ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal met hod for the 
enumeration  
RS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for the 
detection of Salmonella spp.  
RS ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coagulas e-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other 
species) – Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
RS ISO 707, Milk and milk products – Guidance on sampling  
RS ISO 763, Fruit and vegetable products – Determination of ash insoluble in hyd rochloric 
acid  
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: +250 252 586 103/582945  
Email: info@rsb.gov.rw  
Website: www.rsb.gov.rw  
P.O. BOX 7099, Kigali, Rwanda  
http://portal.rsb.gov.rw  
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