G/TBT/N/TZA/415  
30 March 2020  
(20-2522) 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  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: 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 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Cereals, 
pulses and derived products (ICS 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified docum ent: 
AFDC  15(6539)  P3 Frozen uncooked chapati – Specification (5 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania Standard specifies requirements, sampling and 
methods of test for frozen uncooked chapati intended for making ready to eat chapa ti. The 
standard applies to kneaded flattened pliable flour discs, prepared from wheat flour milled 
from Triticum aestivum L or club wheat, Triticum compactum (Host) or a mixture thereof.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems  where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• TZS 4: Rounding off numerical values  
• TZS 100 Plantation (mill) white sugar -specification  
• TZS 101 Refined white sugar - specification  
• TZS 109: Code of hygiene for food processing units – General  
• TZS 111 Code of hygiene for bakery and biscuits manufacturing units  
• TZS 118 -1 /ISO 4833 -1 Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorga nisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30°C by the pour plate 
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  • TZS 119/ ISO 4831 - Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for detection and enumeration of coliforms – Most probable number 
technique  
• TZS 122 -1 /ISO 6579 -1 Micro biology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
• TZS 132/EAS 35 Fortified food grade salt — Specification  
• TZS 331: Cereals – Milled products – Method of test  
• TZS 439 -1/ EAS: 1 Wheat flour – Specification  
• TZS 439 -2/ EAS: 767 Fortified wheat flour – specification  
• TZS 730 - 2)/(1st Ed) ISO 16649 -2: Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – 
Horizontal method for the enumeration of -b-glucuronidase -positive  Escherichia 
coli – Part 2 – Colony -count technique at 44 0C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl -
b-D-glucuronide  
• TZS 789:/EAS 12: Potable water — Specification  
• TZS 831 Brown sugar - specification  
• TZS 2426 -1: 2019/ISO 21527 -1Microbiology of food and animal feed ing stuffs — 
Horizontal method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 1: Colony 
count technique in products with water activity greater than 0.95  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  May 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as a mandatory by the Minister for 
Industry, Trade and Investment  
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:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2020/TBT/TZA/20_2215_00_e.pdf