G/TBT/N/BWA/157  
25 May 2022  
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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:  BOTSWANA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
BOTSWANA BUREAU OF STANDARDS  
Private Bag B0 48  
Gaborone,  
Botswana.  
Tel : (+267) 3903200  
Fax:(+267)3903120  
Toll Free Number : (0800 600 900)  
E-mail : infoc@hq.bobstandards.bw  
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):  Vegetables 
and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.080.20)  
5. Title, nu mber of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  BOS 672:2015 
Bottled tomato sauce — Specification ; (19 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Botswana standard prescribes the requirements and the 
method of test for tomato sauce.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  National security requirements; Protection of human health or safety; Quality 
requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
BOS 32 Drinking water  
CODEX STN 192 -1995 
SANS 388, Commercial dextrose and liquid glucose  
SANS 638/SADC HS 15, Food grade salt  
SANS 7954/ISO 7954, Microbiology – General guidance for enumeration of yeasts and 
molds –Colony count technique at 25 °C  
ISO 2447 Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of tin content  G/TBT/N/BWA/157  
 
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  ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — 
Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
ISO 6636 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of zinc content — 
Part 1: Polarographic method  
ISO 6636 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of zinc content — 
Part 2: Atomic absorption spectrometric method  
ISO 6636 -3, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of zinc content — Part 3: 
Dithizone spectrome tric method  
ISO 6634, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of arsenic content —
Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method . 
ISO 7952, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of copper content — 
Method using fl ame atomic absorption spectrometry  
ISO 17239, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of arsenic content 
— Method using hydride generation atomic absorption spectrometry  
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:   
BOTSWANA BUREAU OF STANDARDS  
Private Bag B0 48  
Gaborone,  
Botswana.  
Tel : (+267) 3903200  
Fax:(+267)3903120  
Toll Free Number : (0800 600 900)  
E-mail : infoc@hq.bobstandards.bw