G/TBT/N/TZA/1096  
19 January 2024  
(24-0438) 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  
Ubungo, Morogoro Road/Sam Nujoma Road  
P. O. Box 9524  
DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA  
Tel. No: +255 22 245 0298/+255 22 245 0206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
Telefax: +255 22 2450959  
E-mail: info@tbs.go.tz  
Website: http://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 [X], 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):  Cereal 
flours (excl. wheat, meslin and maize) (HS code(s): 110290); Cereals, pulses and derived 
products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DARS 
1348:2023, Amaranth flour — Specification, First edition ; (10 pa ge(s), in English)  
Note: This Draft African Standard was also notified under SPS committee  
6. Description of content:  This African standard specifies the requirements and methods 
of sampling and test for flour prepared from dried grain obtained from amaranth plant 
(Amaranthus caudutus, A.hypochondaricus, A.cruentus and any other variety duly 
approved as a grain amaranth s pecies) intended for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety;  Protection of animal or plant 
life or health; Protection of the environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization; 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odour, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
3. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
4. ARS 1349, Amaranth grain – Specification  
5. 1SO 24333, Cereal s and cereal products -Sampling  
6. ISO 712 - Determination of Moisture content in cereals and cereals product.  
7. ISO 21527 -2, Horizontal method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — 
Part 2: Colony count technique in products with water activity less than or  equal 
to 0, 
8. ISO 6888 -1, Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive 
staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 1: Method using 
Baird-Parker agar medium  
9. ISO 4833 -1, Horizontal method for the enumeration of microorganisms  — Part 1: 
Colony count at 30 degrees C by the pour plate technique  
10. ISO 7251, Horizontal method for the detection and enumeration of presumptive 
Escherichia coli —Most probable number technique  
11. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insolub le in hydrochloric 
acid 
12. ISO 1871, Agricultural food products ― General directions for the determination 
of nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method  
13. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products ― Determination of crude fibre content ― 
General Method  
14. CXS 192, Codex general s tandard for food additives  
15. CXS 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
16. ISO 2171, Cereals, pulses and by -products ― Determination of ash yield by 
incineration  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined and notified  
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)  
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  
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