G/TBT/N/BDI/40  
 
23 May 2019  
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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@bbn -burundi.org   
Website: www.bbn -burundi.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):  Fish and 
fishery products (ICS 67.120.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Fish protein 
concentrate — Specification (11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This East African Standard adopted as Burundi Standard 
specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for fish protein concentrate 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; Quality requirements; 
Reducing trade ba rriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 925.09, Solids (total) and loss on drying (moisture) in flour —Vacuum oven 
method   
2. AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate method  
3. AOAC 972.23, Lead in fish — Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method  
4. AOAC 973.34, Cadmium in food — Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method  
5. AOAC 983.20, Mercury (methyl) in fish and shellfish — Gas chromatographic 
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  6. AOAC 999.13, Lysine, methionine and threonine in pure amino aci ds (feed grade) 
premixes — HPLC post -column derivatization  
7. CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
8. CAC/RCP 52, Code of practice for fish and fishery products  
9. EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements  
10. EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry ― Code of practice  
11. EAS 62 -1, Fish handling and processing — Code of practice — Part 1: Fresh fish  
12. EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  
13. EAS 804, Claims on foods — Requirements  
14. EAS 805, Use of nutritional and health claims  — Requirement  
15. ISO 936, Meat and meat products — Determination of total ash  
16. ISO 1736, Dried milk and dried milk products — Determination of fat content — 
Gravimetric method (Reference method)  
17. ISO 3310 -2, Test sieves — Technical requirements and testing — Part 2: Test 
sieves of perforated metal plate  
18. ISO 4833 (all parts), Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of microorganisms — Colony -count technique at 30 
degrees C  
19. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determina tion of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
20. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for detection of Salmonella spp  
21. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of c oagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
22. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Esche richia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
23. ISO 10304 -1, Water quality — Determination of dissolved anions by liquid 
chromatography of ions — Part 1: Determination of bromide, chloride, fluoride, 
nitrate, nitrite phosphate and sulfate  
24. ISO 15495, Milk, mi lk products and infant formulae —Guidelines for the 
quantitative determination of melamine and cyanuric acid by LC -MS/MS  
25. ISO 20483, Cereals and pulses — Determination of the nitrogen content and 
calculation of the crude protein content — Kjeldahl method  
26. 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  
27. ISO 21567, Microbiology of food and animal feeding st uffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Shigella spp.  
Bibliography  
IS 9808:1981(R2005), Specification for fish protein concentrate  
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  G/TBT/N/BDI/40  
 
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  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@bbn -burundi.org   
Website: www.bbn -burundi.org