G/TBT/N/TZA/863  
30 November 2022  
(22-8922) 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:  TANZANIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  
Tel: +255 222450206,  
E- mail: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
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:   
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):  - Other 
cheese (HS code(s): 040690); Cheese (ICS code(s): 67.100.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 14 (1684), 
Ricotta Cheese – Specification; (4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania standard specifies requirements, sampling and 
test methods, for Ricotta cheese intended for di rect human consumption or for further 
processing.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
TZS 4 - Rounding off numerical values  
TZS 109 - Food processing units – code of hygiene  
TZS 112 – Milk – Production, processing, transportation and distribution – code of hygiene.  
TZS 118 - Microbiolo gy of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
enumeration of micro – organisms – Colony count technique at 30ºC  
TZS 119 – Microbiology – General guidance for the enumeration of coliforms – Most 
Probable Number technique (MPN).  
TZS 124 - Milk and milk products – sampling for microbiological examination.  G/TBT/N/TZA/863  
 
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  TZS 131:2006 - Microbiology - General guidance for enumeration of yeast and moulds – 
Colony count technique at 25ºC.  
TZS 450: 1990 - Cheese methods of sampling and test.  
TZS 538:1999 – Packaging and labeling of foods  
TZS 731:2007 / ISO 7251:2005 – Microbiology of food and feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli – Most Probable 
Number Technique  
TZS 125:2002 - Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
enumeration of coagulase – positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other 
species)  
TZS 122:2007 – Microbiology of food and feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for the 
detection of Salmonella spp.  
TZS 12 92:2010 Cheese and processed cheese products -- Determination of fat content -
- Gravimetric method (Reference method)  
TZS 1290:2010 Cheese and processed cheese products -- Determination of chloride 
content by Polari metric titration method  
TZS 1326 – Animal  and vegetable fats and oil – Determination of moisture and volatile 
matter  
TZS 252Butter Specification  
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:   
Contact person(s):  
Ms. Bahati Samillani (NEP officer) and Mr. Clavery Chausi  
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)  
Morogoro/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O Box 9524  
Dar Es Salaam  
Tel: +(255) 22 2450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
Website: http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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