KEBS · East Africa23 requirements

KS EAS 153:2018

A product specification rather than a management system standard. It sets what the water must contain, what it must not, and exactly what the label has to say.

Clause structure in CompStack
  • 4Requirements8
  • 5Contaminants3
  • 6Microbiological requirements1
  • 7Packaging2
  • 8Labelling7
  • 9Parameters for minimum monitoring1
  • 10Sampling plan1
15 clauses total23 requirements
Who carries this

KS EAS 153, in practice.

Packaged drinking water. Specification.

Packaged water producers in Kenya and the wider East African Community, where the KEBS permit and the mark are a condition of selling at all.

A note on the text

The clause numbers and titles above are the standard's own public structure. The standard itself is copyright of its issuing body and you buy it from them. What we add is the interpretation underneath, and that lives in your workspace.

What the service does with it

Every month, on a schedule you can check.

This is the running work for this standard specifically. The general shape is the same across all of them.

We carry
  • Hold the test schedule against the parameters the standard names
  • File laboratory results as they are issued, against the requirement they satisfy
  • Keep label artwork under version control with the mandatory particulars checked
  • Track permit and certificate expiry before it becomes an interruption
  • Prepare the file the inspector asks for as an ordinary output
Evidence the assessor asks for
  • Laboratory test certificates for the named parameters
  • Sampling records against the plan in clause 10
  • Approved label artwork with version history
  • Source and treatment monitoring records
  • Valid permit and standardisation mark documentation

Each one is filed against the requirement it satisfies as the work happens, so the pack for the next visit already exists.

Walk it yourself

Name a clause in KS EAS 153 and we will open it.

The requirement, the control attached to it, the evidence that satisfies it, and the audit checklist it generates. Nothing prepared in advance, because there is nothing to prepare.