G/TBT/N/BDI/22  
 
2 April 2019  
(19-2055) 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:  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):  Meat of 
bovine animals, fresh or chilled (HS 0201); Meat of bovine animals, frozen (HS 0202); 
Meat and meat product s (ICS 67.120.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Canned corned 
beef — Specification (8 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, 
methods of tests and samp ling for canned corned beef products.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Quality requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
• CAC/RCP 58 , Code of hygienic practice for meat  
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
• ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens — Colony -count technique  
• ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 ˚C by the pour 
plate technique  
• AOAC 950.46, Method for analysis of moisture in meat  G/TBT/N/BDI/22  
 
- 2 - 
 
  • AOAC 960.39, Method for analysis of fat in meat  
• AOAC 992.15, Method for analysis of crude protein in meat and meat products  
• AOAC 920.153, Method  for analysis of ash in meat and meat products  
• AOAC 985.16, Method for analysis for tin in canned foods  
• ISO 17294 -2, Method for analysis of water quality (elements)  
• CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
• CODEX STAN 193, General standard fo r contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
• EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification  
• ISO 17294 -2, Water quality — Application of inductively coupled plasma mass 
spectrometry (ICP -MS) — Part 2: Determination of 62 elements  
• ISO 6633, Fruits,  vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 5961, Water quality — Determination of cadmium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
• ISO 6637, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of mercury 
content — Flameless atomic absorption method  
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:   
Documentation and Information Centre Division at BBN  
Boulevard de la Tanzanie N° 500  
BP: 3535 Bujumbura, Burundi  
Tel: +257222218 15 or +25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbn -burundi.org   
Website: www.bbn -burundi.org