G/TBT/N/RWA/107  
 
11 January 2018  
(18-0307) Page: 1/3 
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): DEAS 768: 
2017 
Cereals, pulses  and derived products (ICS 67.060).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Fortified milled 
maize (corn) products — Specification (20 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: This Draft East African Standard specifies  the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for fortified milled maize (corn) products obtained from the 
grains of common maize (Zea mays L.) intended for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applic able: Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
AOAC 2001.04, Official methods of analysis for fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn and corn 
flakes  
AOAC 953.17, Thiamine (vitamin B1) in grain products. Fluor  
AOAC 961.02, Germicidal Spray Method  
AOAC 970.65, Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) in Foods and Vitamin Pr eparations  
AOAC 975.41, Niacin and niacinamide in cereal products. Aut omated Method  
AOAC 2004.05, Total Folates in Cereal  and Cereal Foods  
AOAC 2011.14, Calcium, Copper, Ir on, Magnesium, Manganese, Potassium, Phosphorus, 
Sodium, and Zinc in Fortified Food Products.  G/TBT/N/RWA/ 107 
 
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  CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
CODEXSTAN 193, Codex general standards for contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
EAS 2, Maize (grain s) — Specification  
EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification  
EAS 39, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry  
EAS 44, Milled maize products — Specification  
EAS 803, Nutriotion labelling — Requirements  
EAS 804,  Claims on food — General requirements  
EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims — Requirements  
ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content (Basic 
reference method)  
ISO 2171, Cereals, pulses and by -products — Determination of  ash yield by incineration  
ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique    
ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination crude fibre content -General method  
ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid  
ISO 6540, Maize — Determination of moisture content (on milled grains and on whole 
grains)  
ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for th e 
detection of Salmonella spp.  
ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other 
species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medi um 
ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most probable number 
technique  
ISO 7305, Milled cereal products – Determination of fat acidity  
ISO 7954, Mic robiology — General guidance for enumeration of yeasts and moulds — 
Colony count technique at 25 °C  
ISO 11085, Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs -- Determination of 
crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method  
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  
ISO 16649 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of β -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — Part 1: Colony -count technique 
at 44 °C using membranes and 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl β -D-glucuronide  
ISO 20483, Cereals and pulses — Determination of the nitrogen cont ent and calculation of 
the crude protein content — Kjeldahl method  
ISO 20633, Infant formula and adult nutritionals -- Determination of vitamin E and vitamin 
A by normal phase high performance liquid chromatography  
ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and ani mal feedstuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in products with 
water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling   G/TBT/N/RWA/107  
 
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  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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