G/TBT/N/BDI/124  
14 June 2021  
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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:  BURUNDI   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Burundi Bureau of Standards and Quality Control (BBN)  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815/+25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbnburundi.org  
Website: www.bbnburundi.org  
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 [X], 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):  Processed 
cultivated edible mushrooms - Specification  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Processed 
cultivated edible mushrooms — Specification (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft East Africa St andard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for processed cultivated edible mushrooms intended for 
human consumption or for other use in the food industry.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicab le: Consumer information, labelling; Quality requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• CODEX STAN 192, Food — Permitted food additives — Schedule  
• EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements  
• ISO 948, Spices and condiments — Sampling  
• ISO 2447, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of tin  
• ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
• ISO 4833-2, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 2: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
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  • ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal methods 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumera tion of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — 
Part 2: Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-
indolyl beta -D-glucuronide  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
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:   
Documentation and Information Centre Division at BBN  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815 or +25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbnburundi.org  
Website: www. bbnburundi.org