G/TBT/N/TZA/887  
11 January 2023  
(23-0293) 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 (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:   
Zanzibar Bureau of Standards (ZBS)  
PO Box 1136  
Zanzibar  
Tel: +255 24 2232225  
Fax: +255 24 2232225  
E-mail: info@zbs.go.tz  
Web: www.zbs.go.tz  
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):  Sea 
cucumbers, prepared or preserved (excl. smoked) (HS code(s): 160561); Fish and fishery 
products (ICS code(s): 67.120.30)  
5. Title, number of pag es and language(s) of the notified document:  PCD 438:2022, 
Dried sea cucumber - specifications, First edition; (7 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft standard specifies requirements, method of sampling 
and test of dried sea cucumber of species Holothuria scabra intended for human 
consumption and/or for further processing.  
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; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
• AOAC 937.09, Salt (chlorine as sodium chloride) in seafood  G/TBT/N/TZA/887  
 
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  • CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
• ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 °C by the pour plate 
technique  
• ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotypin g of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species) — Part 1: Method using Baird -Parker agar  medium ISO 11290 -1, 
Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection and 
enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeria spp. — Part 1: Detection 
method ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — 
Part 2: Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using 5 - bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl 
beta-D-glucuronide  
• ISO 21872, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
determinatio n of Vibrio spp. — Part 1: Detection of potentially enteropathogenic 
Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus  
• ZNS 52, Edible fortified salt  
• ZNS 57, Potable water specification  
• ZNS 61, Packaging and labeling of food  
• ZNS 94, Rounding of f numerical values  
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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