G/TBT/N/TZA/946  
4 May 2023  
(23-3121) 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 (TBS)  
MOROGORO/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O BOX 9524, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania  
Tel: +255 222450206,  
E- mail: nep@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 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  
Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. d og or cat food put up for retail sale) 
(HS code(s): 230990); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  AFDC 9 (1686), 
Calcium Phosphate – animal feed grade – Specification; (7 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Tanzania standard specifies requirements, methods of 
sampling and test for monocalcium phosphate (MCP), monodicalcium phosphate (MDCP), 
dicalcium phosphate (DCP) and tricalcium phosphate (TCP) as mineral supplem ents in 
animal feeds.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of animal or plant life or health; 
Quality requirements; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
• TZS 4 – Rounding off numerical values.  
• TZS 34 -3 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Part 3 – Microbiological test 
methods.  
• TZS 34 -2 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Sampling and test methods – Part 
2: Minerals and trace elements.  
• TZS 34 -1 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Part 1 Sampling and general 
methods.  G/TBT/N/TZA/946  
 
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  • TZS 76 – General method for determination of Arsenic silver diethyldithiocarmate 
photometric method.  
• TZS 109 – Food Processing units – code of hygiene – General.  
• TZS 268 – General atomic absorption spectrophotometric method for 
determination of lead in food stuffs  
• TZS 538:1999 – Packaging and labeling of foods  
• TZS 821 – Animal feeds and feeding stuffs – Preparation of test samples. ISO 
5985 – Animal feeding stuffs – Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid.  
• AOAC 2006.03 – Arsenic, 
Cadmium,Cobalt,Chromium,Lead,Molybdenum,Nickel,and selenium in fertilizers  
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:   
Contact person(s):  
Ms. Bahati Samillani (NEP officer) and Mr. Clavery Chausi  
Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS)  
Morogoro/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubungo  
P O Box 9524  
Dar Es Salaam  
Tel: +(255) 22 2450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
Website: http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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