G/TBT/N/KEN/1607  
19 April 2024  
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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:  KENYA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
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:   
P.O. Box: 54974 -00200,  
Nairobi, Kenya  
Telephone: + (254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258 Fax: + (254) 020 609660/609665 E -
mail: info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs. org 
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Food 
products in general (ICS code(s): 67.040)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DKS 3005:2024 
Arrow root Flour — Specification; (11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content : This Draft Kenya standard prescribes the requirements and 
methods of sampling and test for arrowroot flour, which is derived from the rhizomes 
(rootstocks) of the tropical plant Maranta arundinacea.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of ur gent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. IS 1006(1984): Specification for arrow root starch  
2. AOAC 2013.06 Determination of Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, and Lead in Foods 
by Pressure Digestion and  
3. Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry  
4. CXS 192, General Standard for food additives  
5. KS 2842, Fresh arrowroot (Taro) -Specification.  
6. KS EAS 38, General stan dard for the labelling of pre -packaged foods  G/TBT/N/KEN/1607  
 
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  7. KS EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of 
practice  
8. KS EAS 82, Milled cereal products — Methods of test (General methods)  
9. KS ISO 712, Cereals, and cereal products — Determination of moisture content 
— Routine reference method  
10. KS ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content 
— General method  
11. KS ISO 6888 -1Microbiology of the food chain, Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species) Part 1: Method using Baird -Parker agar medium,  
12. KS ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain, Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella. Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
13. KS ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
14. KS ISO 21527, 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 with water activity greater than 0,95  
15. KS ISO 13690, Cereals, pulses and milled cereal products - Sampling of static 
batches  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  30 September 2024  
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:   
Kenya Bureau of Standards  
WTO/TBT National Enquiry Point P.O. Box: 54974 -00200, Nairobi, Kenya Telephone: + 
(254) 020 605490, 605506/6948258 Fax: + (254) 0 20 609660/609665 E -mail: 
info@kebs.org ; Website: http://www.kebs.org  
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