G/TBT/N/TZA/793  
10 June 2022  
(22-4378) 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 
(HS code(s): 10); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DARS 864, Dry 
beans — Specification,Second Edition; (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This African Standard specifies requirements and methods of 
sampling and test for dry b eans (Phaseolus vulgaris) intended for human consumption. 
It does not apply to processed beans.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and species 
and variety — Test methods  
ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
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  ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry ISO 6633, Fruits, 
vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — Flameless atomic 
absorption spectrometric method  
ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
ISO/TS 16634 -2, Food products — Determination of the total nitrogen content by 
combustion according to the Dumas principle and calculation of the crude protei n content 
— Part 2: Cereals, pulses and milled cereal products  
ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in products with 
water activity less th an or equal to 0.95  
ISO 24557, Pulses — Determination of moisture content — Air-oven method  
ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, 
magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, 
lead and cadmium by ICPAES  
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 95 24 
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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