G/TBT/N/TZA/486  
12 November 2020  
(20-8109) 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  
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):  Meat and 
meat products (ICS 67. 120.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 1029: 
2020 Rabbit meat (carcasses and cuts) — Specification (6 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and method of test for rabbit meat (carcass and cuts) intended for human 
consumption  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer info rmation, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
• CAC/MRL 2, Maximum residue limits for veterinary drugs in food  
• CAC/RCP 58, Code of hygienic practice for meat 
• CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
• EAS 38; Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
• 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 5961, Water quality — Determination of cadmium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
• ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
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  • ISO 6637, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of mercury 
content — Flameless atomic absorption method  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 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 usin g Baird -Parker agar medium  
• ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
• ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stu ffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens — Colony count technique  
• ISO 10272 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for detection 
and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. — Part 1: Detection method  
• ISO 11290 -1, Micr obiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeria spp. — Part 
1: Detection method  
• ISO 16649 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of beta -glucuroni dase-positive Escherichia coli — Part 1: Colony -
count technique at 44 degrees C using membranes and 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-
indolyl beta -D-glucuronide  
• ISO 17294 -2, Water quality — Application of inductively coupled plasma mass 
spectrometry (ICP -MS) — Part 2: De termination of 62 elements  
• ISO 17604, Microbiology of the food chain — Carcass sampling for microbiological 
analysis  
• OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  January 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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