G/TBT/N/BDI/88  
6 January 2021  
(21-0203) 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@bbnburundi.org  
Web site: www.bbnburundi.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):  Butter 
(ICS 67.100.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Cocoa butter 
for food industry — Specification (10 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for cocoa butter for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  National security requirements; Consumer information, labelling; Quality 
requirements; Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
• DEAS 1030, Cocoa beans — Specification  
• AOAC 960.31, Fatty acids (water -insoluble) and butyric acid  
• AOAC 975.13 -,  Unsaponifiab le Matter in Cocoa Butter - Ether  
• AOAC 999.11, Determination of Lead, Cadmium, Copper, Iron, and Zinc in 
Foods, Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry after Dry Ashing  
• Codex Stan 192, Codex general standard for food additives   
• CAC/GL 50; General guidelines on  sampling  
• CAC/GL 75, Guidelines on substances used as processing aids  
• EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — Specification   G/TBT/N/BDI/88  
 
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  • EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of 
practice   
• 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 16654 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs ― Horizontal method 
for the detection of Escherichia coli O157  
• 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 ag ar medium  
• ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain ― Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of salmonella ― Part 1: Detection of 
salmonella spp.  
• ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain ― Horizontal method for the 
enumeration o f microorganisms ― Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
• ISO 15141, Cereals and cereal products ― Determination of ochratoxin A ― 
High performance liquid chromatographic method with immunoaffinity column 
cleanup and fluorescence.  
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: +25722221815 or +25722221577  
E- Mail: info@bbnburundi.org  
Web site: www.bbnburundi.org  
https://bbnburundi.org/wp -content/uploads/2020/12/DEAS -1032-2020-Cocoa -butter -
Specification -converti.pdf