G/TBT/N/TZA/953  
4 May 2023  
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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 (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):  
Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. d og or cat food put up for retail sale) 
(HS code(s): 230990); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 9 (1688), 
Pig feed premixes – Specification; (5 page(s), in English)  
6. Desc ription of content:  This draft Tanzania standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for pig feed premixes used as animal feed  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of animal or plant life or health; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• TZS 4 – Rounding off numerical values.  
• TZS 34 -1 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Part 1 Sampling and general 
methods.  
• TZS 34 -2 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Sampling and test methods – Part 
2: Minerals and trace elements. TZS 76 – General method for determination of 
Arsenic silver diethyldithiocarmate photometric method.  
• TZS 109 – Food Processing units – code of hygiene – General. G/TBT/N/TZA/953  
 
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  • TZS 268 – General atomic absorption spectrophotometric method for 
determination of lead in food stuffs  
• TZS 538:1999 – Packaging and labeling of foods  
• TZS 821 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Preparation of test samples.  
• ISO 6867 – Animal feeding stuffs -- Determination of vitamin E content -- Method 
using highperformance liquid chromatography  
• ISO 14565 - Animal feeding stuffs -- Determination of vitamin A content -- Method 
using highperformance liquid chromatography  
• AOAC 944.12 - Folic aci d (pteroyl glutamic acid) in vitamin preparations. 
Microbiological methods  
• AOAC 945.74 - Pantothenic Acid in Vitamin Preparations - Microbiological Methods  
• AOAC 961.14 - Niacin and Niacinamide in Drugs, Foods, and Feeds - Colorimetric 
Method  
• AOAC 968.17 - Butylated hydroxy anisole and butylated hydroxytoluene in 
cereals. Gas chromatographic method  
• AOAC 970.65 - Riboflavin (Vitamin B2) in Foods and Vitamin Preparations  
• AOAC 974.30 - Menadione Sodium Bisulfite (Water -Soluble Vitamin K3) in Feed 
Premixes - Gas Chromatographic Method  
• AOAC 996.16 – Selenium in Feeds and Premixes.  
• AOAC 2006.03 – Arsenic, Cadmium, Cobalt, Chromium, Lead, Molybdenum, 
Nickel, and selenium in fertilizers  
• AOAC 952.20 -1960 Cobalamin (Vitamin B12 Activity) in Vatamin Preparations – 
Micro biological Methods  
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 9524 
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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