G/TBT/N/BDI/79  
12 February 2020  
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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@bbnburundi.org  
Website: www.b bn-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):  Animal and 
vegetable fats and oils (ICS 67.200.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Crude and semi 
refined palm oil — Specification (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:   
This East African standard adopte d as Burundi standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for crude and semi refined (neutralized and/or bleached) palm 
oil derived from the fleshy mesocarp of the fruit of oil palm ( Elaeis guineensis ) intended for 
further processing.  
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; 
Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food. Silver diethyldithiocarbamate  
• CODE X 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 660 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of acid value and 
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  • ISO 661 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Preparation of test sample  
• ISO 662 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of moisture and 
volatile matter content  
• ISO 3596 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of unsaponifiable 
matter — Methodusing diethyl ether extraction  
• ISO 3657 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of saponification 
value  
• ISO 3961 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determ ination of iodine value 
using diethyl ether extraction  
• ISO 5555 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Sampling  
• ISO 6320 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of refractive index  
• ISO 6321 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of  melting point in 
open capillary tubes (slip point)  
• ISO 6883 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of conventional 
mass per volume (litre weight in air)  
• ISO 8294 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of copper, iron and 
nickel c ontents — Graphite furnace atomic absorption method  
• ISO 12193 , Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of lead by direct 
graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy  
• ISO 15305,  Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of Lovibond co lour 
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:   
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  
Website: www.bbn -burundi.org