G/TBT/N/TZA/493  
13 November 2020  
(20-8157) 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  
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):  Beverages 
(ICS 67.160)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC13 (490) 
P3 Craft beer – Specification (9 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania standard specifies requirements, methods of 
sampling and testing for craft 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:   
• TZS 4, Rounding of numbers  
• CODEX STAN 192, Codex general standard for food additives  
• TZS 789/EAS 12, Drinking (potable) water — Specification  
• TZS 538/EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements  
• TZS 109: 1981 (1st Ed) - Food processing units – Code of hygiene  
• TZS 268/EAS 100, Food stuffs — Methods of determination of Lead  
• TZS 1491/ISO 1842, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of pH  
• TZS 729/ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and a nimal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique  
• TZS 118 -1/ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of microorganisms — 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  G/TBT/N/TZA/493  
 
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  • 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 cereals, nuts and derived products 
— High-performance liquid  chromatographic metho d 
• TZS 471/EAS 104 Alcoholic beverages — Methods of sampling and testing  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  January 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
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  
+(255) 22 2450206  
nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
http://www. tbs.go.tz  
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