G/TBT/N/BDI/89  
6 January 2021  
(21-0204) 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:  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@bbnburundi.org  
Web site: www.bbnburundi.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):  Chocolate 
(ICS 67.190)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Chocolate and 
chocolate products — Specification (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for chocolate and chocolate products for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  National security requirements; Protection of the environment; Quality 
requirements ; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements.  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of 
practice  
• AOAC 963.15, Fat in Cacao Products  
• AOAC 931.05, Cacao Mass (Fat-Free) of Chocolate Liquor  
• AOAC 945.34, Fat (Milk) in Milk Chocolate  
• AOAC 920.80, Milk Fat in Milk Chocolate  
• AOAC 999.10, Lead, Cadmium, Zinc, Copper, and Iron in Foods — Atomic 
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  • AOAC 999.11, Determ ination of Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Iron, and Zinc in 
Foods  
• AOAC 973.34, Cadmium in Food  
• AOAC 986.15, Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, Selenium, and Zinc in Human and Pet 
Foods  
• CODEX STAN 234, Methods of Analysis and Sampling  
• CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
• ISO 16654, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Escherichia coli O157  
• ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonel la — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
• 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  
• ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food 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  
9. Prop osed 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:   
Documentation and Information Centre Division at BBN  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815 or +25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbnburundi.org  
Web site: www.bbnburundi.org  
https://bbnburundi.org/wp -content/uploads/2020/12/DEAS -1033-2020-Chocolate -
Specification -converti.pdf