G/TBT/N/TZA/261  
 
28 March 2019  
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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:  TANZANIA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2  and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: info@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:   
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):  Alcoholic 
beverages (ICS 67.160.10)  
5. Title, number of pa ges and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 13(6153) 
P3/TZS 56:2015 Beer – Specification (10 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania standard specifies requirements and methods of 
sampling and test for beer.  
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:   
• CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
• TZS 789/EAS 12, Drinking (potable) water — Specification  
• TZS 538/EAS 38, Labelling of prepackaged foods — Specification  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink industry — Code of practice  
• TZS 268/EAS 100, Food stuffs — Methods of determination of Lead  
• ISO 1842, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of pH  
• TZS 729/ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
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  • ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for t he 
enumeration of micro -organisms — Part 1: Colony -count at 30 degrees C — Pour 
plate technique  
• TZS1502/ISO 6634, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
arsenic content — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method  
• TZS 1492/ISO 17240, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of tin 
content — Method using flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometry  
• TZS 799/ISO 16050:2003 Foodstuffs -- Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the 
total content of aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cer eals, nuts and derived products 
-- High-performance liquid chromatographic method  
• TZS 1502/ISO 6634 Fruits, vegetables and derived products – Sampling and 
methods of test Part 14 \: Determination of arsenic content /Silver 
diethyldithocarbamate spectrophotom etric method  
• TZS 471/EAS 104 Alcoholic beverages — Methods of sampling and testing  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  September 2019  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as a mandatory by the Minister 
for Industry, Trade and Investment  
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:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: info@tbs.go.tz   
Website: www.tbs.go.tz   
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