G/TBT/N/TZA/966  
8 May 2023  
(23-3261) 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:   
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 and similar toasted 
products) (HS code(s): 190590); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 
67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 15 (773) 
DTZS, Frozen samosa and spring rolls – Specification,; (6 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania Standard specifies requirements, methods of 
sampling and test for frozen samosa and spring roll intended for further processing to 
render it suitable for human consumption. It is also applicable to similar products wit h 
different shapes such as cones, half -moon, rectangle shapes.  
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  
8. Relevant documents:   
CODEX STAN 192, Codex General Standard for foods additives.  
CODEX STAN 193, Codex General Standard for Contaminants and Toxins in foods  
TZS 4, Rounding off numerical values  G/TBT/N/TZA/966  
 
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  TZS 109, Fo od 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 16649 -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 118 -1/ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microo rganisms – Part 1: Colony count at 300C by the pour plate 
technique  
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 125 -1/ISO 6 888-1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) – Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
TZS 2426 -1/ ISO 21527 -1 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds - Part 1: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity greater than 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 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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