G/TBT/N/TZA/889  
24 January 2023  
(23-0567) 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):  Cereals 
(excl. maize [corn]) in grain or flake form or  other worked grains, pre -cooked or otherwise 
prepared, n.e.s. (excl. flour, groats and meal, food preparations obtained by swelling or 
roasting or from unroasted cereal flakes or from mixtures of unroasted cereal flakes and 
roasted cereal flakes or swelle d cereals and bulgur wheat) (HS code(s): 190490); General 
methods of tests and analysis for food products (ICS code(s): 67.050)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 15 (771), 
Chevdo (cheuro) – Specification; (5 page(s),  in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania Standard specifies safety and quality 
requirements, sampling and methods of test for Chevdo (cheuro) intended for human 
consumption. Note: also known as chevda, chidwa  
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:   
• CODEX STAN 192, Codex General Standard for foods additives.  
• CODEX STAN 193, Codex General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in foods  
• TZS 4, Rounding off numerical values  
• TZS 109, Food processing units - Code of hygiene - General  G/TBT/N/TZA/889  
 
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  • TZS 111 bakery units - code of practices.  
• TZS 118 -1: 2018/ISO 4833 -1: 2013 - Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of microorganisms - Part 1: Colony count at 30 °C 
by the pour plate technique  
• TZS 122 -1:2018/ISO 6579 -1: 2017 - Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal 
method for the detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: 
Detection of Salmonella spp  
• TZS 125 -1/ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – 
Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive st aphylococci 
(Staphylococcus aureus and other species) – Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker 
agar medium  
• TZS 731, Microbiology of food and feeding -stuffs - Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli - Most Probable 
Number Technique  
• TZS 2426 -1/ ISO 21527 -1- Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - 
Horizontal method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds - Part 1: Colony 
count technique in products with water activity greater than 0.95  
• TZS 2752: Bakery produc ts - methods of analysis  
• TZS 2753: Bakery products - methods of sampling  
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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