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Notifying Member: MALAWI

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible:

Malawi 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:

Director General

Malawi Bureau of Standards

P.O Box 946

Blantyre

Malawi

Telephone:+265 887 376 444

Fax: +265 1 870 756

Email: info@mbsmw.org

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): (HS code(s): 03061); (ICS code(s): 67.140.10)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DMS 2057:2024, Instant tea in solid form – Specification; (-1 page(s), in English)

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Description of content:

This draft Malawi standard specifies the requirements, sampling and methods of test for instant tea in solid form.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection; Quality requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade

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Relevant documents:

1._    MS 19: Labelling of prepacked foods – General standard

2._    MS 21: Food and food processing units – Code of hygienic conditions

3._    MS 237: Food additives – General standard

4._    MS 302: Contaminants and toxins in food and feed – General standard

5._    MS 2061: Instant tea in solid form – Determination of moisture content (loss in mass at 103 oC)

6._    MS 2059: Instant tea in solid form – Determination of total ash

7._    MS 2058: Instant tea in solid form – Sampling

8._    ISO 16649-2: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for the enumeration of glucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli – Part 2: Colony-count technique at 44 °C using 5-bromo-4-chloro-3- indolyl-D-glucuronide

9._    ISO 21527-2: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – 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

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

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Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:

Director General

Malawi Bureau of Standards

P.O Box 946

Blantyre

Malawi

Telephone:+265 887 376 444

Fax: +265 1 870 756

Email: info@mbsmw.org