G/TBT/N/BDI/25  
 
2 April 2019  
(19-2059) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original: English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  BURUNDI   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Burundi Bureau of Standards and Quality Control (BBN)  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815/+25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbn -burundi.org   
Website: www.bbn -burundi.org   
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 [X], 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):  Sausages 
and similar products, of meat, meat offal or blood; food preparations based on these 
products (HS 1601)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Meat sausages 
— Specification (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements and 
methods of sampling and testing for sausages m ade from beef, lamb/mutton, goat meat, 
camel meat, pork and poultry intended for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Protection of animal or plant 
life or health; Quality requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• AOAC 2011.04, Protein in Raw and Processed Meats — Automated Dye -Binding 
Method  
• CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
• EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
• Codex Stan 192, General standard for food additives  
• EAS 12, Potable water — Specification  G/TBT/N/BDI/25  
 
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  • CD/U/737/2012, Hygienic requirements for the production of packaged meat 
products (processed or manufactured)  
• CAC/RCP 58 -2005, Code of hygienic practice for meat  
• Codex Stan 193, General standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
• ISO 936, Meat and meat products — Determination of total ash  
• ISO 5961, Water quality — Determination of cadmium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
• ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flamel ess atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 6637, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of mercury 
content — Flameless atomic absorption method  
• ISO 1442, Meat and meat products — Determination of moisture content 
(Reference method)  
• ISO 1443, Meat and meat products — Determination of total fat content  
• ISO 4833, Microbiology of foods and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms — Part 2: Colony count technique at 30 
°C 
• ISO 10272 -1, Microbiology o f the food chain — Horizontal method for detection 
and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. — Part 1: Detection method  
• ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C  by the 
pour plate technique  
• ISO 16050, 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 method  
• ISO 17604, Microbiology of th e food chain — Carcass sampling for microbiological 
analysis  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 6888 -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  
• ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumera tion of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
• ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens — Colony count technique  
• ISO 11290, Microbiology of the food  chain — Horizontal method for the detection 
and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeria spp.  
• ISO 17294 -2, Water quality — Application of inductively coupled plasma mass 
spectrometry (ICP -MS) — Part 2: Determination of selected elements incl uding 
uranium isotopes  
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  G/TBT/N/BDI/25  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Documentation and Information Centre Division at BBN  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +25722221815 or +25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbn -burundi.org   
Website: www.bbn -burundi.org