G/TBT/N/TZA/236  
 
20 February 2019  
(19-0972) 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  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: info@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 [   ], other:  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Fruits. 
Vegetables (ICS 67.080).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DEAS 946:2018 
Dried Mango - Specification (11 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This Draft East Africa Standard specifies requirements and 
methods of sampling and test for dr ied mangoes from Mangifera indica intended for direct 
human consumption or for other use in the food industry.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human healt h or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• 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  
• ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coliforms - Colony -count technique  
• 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 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feedingstuffs - Horizontal methods for 
the detection of Salmonella spp.  G/TBT/N/TZA/236  
 
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  • ISO 6636 -2, Fruits, veget ables and derived products - Determination of zinc 
content - Part 2: Atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 6634, Fruits, vegetables and derived products - Determination of arsenic 
content - Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method  
• ISO 2 1872, Microbiology of the food chain - Horizontal method for the detection 
of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae and 
Vibrio vulnificus  
• ISO 7952, Fruits, vegetables and derived products - Determination of copper 
content - Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
9. Proposed date of adoption: Within 6 month s after gazetted by East Africa gazette  
Proposed date of entry into force: After adoption as Tanzania Standards  
10. Final date for comments: 60 days from notification  
11. Texts available from: National enquiry point [  ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: info@tbs.go.tz   
Website: www.tbs.go.tz    
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