G/TBT/N/TZA/97/Rev.1  
8 May 2023  
(23-3259) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
Revision  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6.  
 
1. Notifying Member:  TANZANIA  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 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 tele phone 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):  Bread, 
pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; 
communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing 
wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the like, sweet 
biscuits, waffles, wafers not mentioned, rusks, toasted bread an d similar toasted 
products) (HS code(s): 190590); Food products in general (ICS code(s): 67.040)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 15 (5066) 
P3 Cookies – Specification; (5 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of cont ent: This Tanzania Standard prescribes the requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for cookies intended for direct human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling;  Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade   G/TBT/N/TZA/97/Rev.1  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:  Codex Stan 192 Codex General standard for food additives  
CODEX STAN 193, Codex General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in foods  
TZS 4 Rounding off numerical values  
TZS 109 Food processing units - Code of hygiene – General  
TZS 111, Bakery units – Code of hygiene  
TZS 538/EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements  
TZS 730 - 2/ISO 166 49-2 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of -b-glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli – Part 2 – 
Colony -count technique at 44 0C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl -b-D-glucuronide  
TZS 122 -1: /ISO 6579 -1 - Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella - Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp  
TZS 2426 -2/ ISO 21527 -2 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the enumeratio n of yeasts and moulds - Part 2: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
TZS 2752: Bakery products - methods of analysis TZS 2753: Bakery products - methods 
of sampling  
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 or fax 
numbers  and email and website address es, 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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