G/TBT/N/TZA/247  
 
18 March 2019  
(19-1648) 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  
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):  Coffee and 
coffee substitutes (ICS 67.140.20)  
5. Title, number o f pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 975: 2019 
Instant (soluble) coffee — Specification (9 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements and 
methods of sampling and test for Insta nt (soluble) coffee. This standard applies to 
decaffeinated instant coffee.  
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:   
1. AOAC 2000.09, Ochratoxin A in Roasted Coffee Immunoaffinity Column HPLC 
Method  
2. EAS 38, General Standard for the Labelling of Pre -packaged Foods  
3. EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
4. EAS 105, Roasted coffee beans and roasted ground coffee – Specification  
5. ISO 3509, Coffee and coffee products — Vocabulary  
6. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
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  7. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
8. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp.  
9. 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  
10. ISO 3726, Instant coffee — Determination of loss in mass at 70 degrees C under 
reduced pressure  
11. ISO 6670, Instant coffee — Sampling method for bulk units with liners  
12. ISO 20481, Coffee and coffee products — determination  of the caffeine content 
using HPLC — Reference method  
13. ISO 11292, Instant coffee — Determination of free and total carbohydrate 
contents — Method using high performance anion -exchange chromatography  
14. ISO 24114, Instant coffee — Criteria for authenticity  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  August 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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