G/TBT/N/TZA/569  
15 April 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:  TANZANIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
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):  Processes 
in the food industry (ICS 67.020)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 27 (552) 
DTZS General Standard for food safety (29 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania Standard specifies permissible limits for food 
additives, toxins, and contaminants including heavy metals, pathogenic microorganisms, 
pesticide residues, and veterinary drug residues in foods. This general standard applies 
to all foods inten ded for direct human consumption and further processing in particular 
where there is no a specific product standard or the specific product standard doesn't 
specify the limits  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
appli cable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• TZS 4, Rounding off of Numerical Values  
• Codex Pesticides Residues in Food Online Database  
• CXM 2, Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) and Risk Management Recommendations 
(RMRs) for Residues of Veterinary Drugs in Foods  
• CXS 192 -1995, General Standard for Food additives  
• TZS 538 - Packaging and labelling of foods  
• TZS 109, Code of hygiene for food processing unit — General  
• TZS 472, Cassava a nd cassava products — Determination of total cyanogen's — 
Enzymatic assay method  
• ISO 2590 - General method for the determination of arsenic - Silver 
diethyldithiocarbamate photometric method  G/TBT/N/TZA/569  
 
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  • TZS 1335/ISO 8294, Animal and vegetable fats and oils - Determinat ion of copper, 
iron and nickel contents - Graphite furnace atomic absorption method  
• TZS 799/ISO 16050, Foodstuffs - Determination of aflatoxin B1 and the total 
content of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products - 
High-performance liquid chromatographic method  
• ISO 14501 - Milk and milk powder - Determination of aflatoxin M1 content, Clean -
up by immunoaffinity chromatography and determination by high -performance 
liquid chromatography  
• TBS/AFDC 27 (6732) Foodstuffs - Determination of fumonisin B1 and B2 in maize 
based foods - HPLC method with immunoaffinity column clean -up and 
fluorescence detection  
• TBS/AFDC 27 (6733) Foodstuffs - Determination of fumonisin B1 and fumonisin 
B2 in processed maize - containing foods for infa nts and young children - HPLC 
method with immunoaffinity column clean -up and fluorescence detection after 
pre-column derivatisation  
• TZS 2648 /ISO 8128 -1- Apple juice, apple juice concentrates and drinks 
containing apple juice. Determination of Patulin cont ent, Part 1: Method using 
high-performance liquid chromatography  
• TBS/AFDC 27 (6738) Foodstuffs - Determination of patulin in fruit juice and fruit -
based puree for infants and young children - HPLC method with liquid/liquid 
partition clean up and solid phas e extraction and UV detection  
• TZS 2615 Foodstuffs - Determination of ochratoxin A - HPLC method with 
immunoaffinity column clean up and fluorescence detection  
• TZS 118/ ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of mic roorganisms - Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
• TZS 119/ISO 4831, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the detection and enumeration of coliforms - Most probable number 
technique  
• TZS 2426 -1: 2019/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 2426 -2: 2019/ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of fo od and animal feeding stuffs - 
Horizontal method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds - Part 2: Colony 
count technique in products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
• TZS 122/ ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method f or the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
• TZS 852 - 1/ISO 11290 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for 
the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeria spp. - 
Part 1: Detection method  
• TZS 125/6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus 
aureus and other species) - Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
• TZS 730/ ISO 16649 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli - Part 1: Colony -
count technique at 44 degrees C using membranes and 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-
indolyl beta -D-glucuronide  
• TZS 2279/ISO 10272 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for 
detection and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. - Part 1: Detection method  G/TBT/N/TZA/569  
 
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  • TZS 127/ISO 21872 -1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the 
determination of Vibrio spp. - Part 1: Detection of potentially enteropathogenic 
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus  
• TZS 403: 2019/ISO 21567, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - 
Horizontal method for the detection of Shigella spp.  
• TZS 2427:  2019/ISO 21871, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - 
Horizontal method for the determination of low numbers of presumptive Bacillus 
cereus - Most probable number technique and detection method  
• TZS 2422: 2019/ISO 22964, Microbiology of the food  chain - Horizontal method 
for the detection of Cronobacter spp.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  July 2021  
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:   
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  
+(255) 22 2450206  
nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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