G/TBT/N/TZA/617  
20 August 2021  
(21-6311) 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 
edible offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours and meals of meat or meat 
offal (HS 0210); Meat and meat products (ICS 67.120.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 
1063:2021 Dried meat ― Specification (5 page(s), in English ) 
6. Description of content:  This draft East African Standard specifies requirements, 
sampling and test methods for dried meat.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• EAS 769, Specification for edible fats and oil  
• EAS 35, Edible salt – Specification  
• Codex Standard GSFA 192  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry - Code of practice  
• ISO 22000, Food safety management systems - Requirements for any 
organization in the food chain  
• EAS 151, Hazard analysis critical control points (HACCP)  
• CAC/MRL 2, Maximum Residue Limits for Veterinary Dr ugs in Food  
• EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods  
• ISO 4832, — Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs -- Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique  
• ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs -— Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — G/TBT/N/TZA/617  
 
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  Part 2: Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using 5bromo -4-chloro -3-
indolyl beta -D-glucuronide  
• ISO 688 8-1, 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  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 11290 – 1, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and other Listeria spp. -- 
Part 1: Detection method  
• CAC/RCP 58 -2005, Codex code of hygienic practice for meat  
• EAS 12, Specification for potable water  
• ISO 17604, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - carcass sampling  
• ISO/TS 17728, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - sampling 
techniques  for microbiological analysis of foods and feeds  
• ISO 16654, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method 
for the detection of Escherichia coli 0157:H7  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  October 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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