G/TBT/N/BDI/24  
 
2 April 2019  
(19-2057) 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 and 
edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS 0207); Poultry 
and eggs (ICS 6 7.120.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Dressed poultry 
— Specification (11 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, 
methods of sampling and test for dr essed poultry. It applies to birds domesticated 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:   
• 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  
• CAC/MRL 2 , Maximum residue limits for veterinary drugs in food  
• CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
• CAC/RCP 58, Code of hygienic practice for Meat1  G/TBT/N/BDI/24  
 
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  • EAS 12, Potable water — Specification  
• EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  
• EAS 805, Use of nutritional and health claims — Requirement  
• EAS 804, Claims on foods — Requirements  
• Codex Stan 193, General standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
• ISO 11290 -1, 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 including 
uranium isotopes  
• 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 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 5961, Water quality — Determination of cadmium by atomic absorption 
spect rometry  
• ISO 6579 , Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 10272 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for detection 
and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. — Part 1: Detect ion method  
• ISO 17604, Microbiology of the food chain — Carcass sampling for microbiological 
analysis  
• ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 6637, Fruits, v egetables and derived products — Determination of mercury 
content — Flameless atomic absorption method  
• ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus a ureus 
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 enumeration 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  
• OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code  
• International Commission on Microbiological Specification for Foods (ICMSF) book 
8-2011 
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: