G/TBT/N/TZA/349  
25 November 2019  
(19-8054) 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, Ubongo  
P.O Box 9524  
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email an d 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 and 
derived products (ICS 67.080.10)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 1007: 
2019 Chia seeds — Specification (4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East Africa Standard specifies the requirements, 
methods of sampling and test for chia seed (Salvia hispanica L.) intended for human 
consumption.This  standard does not apply to chia seed as a planting material  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant doc uments:   
• EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
• EAS 803, Nutrition labelling — Requirements  
• EAS 804, Claims on food — Requirements  
• EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims — Requirements  
• ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odour, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
• ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
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  • ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal fee ding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
• 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 24333, Cereals, and cereal products — Sampling  
• ISO 24557, Pulses — Determination of moisture content — Air-oven method  
• ISO 12193, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of lead by direct 
graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  April 2020  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration by the Ministry for Industry, Trade 
and Investment  
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:   
Tanzania Bureau of Standards  
Morogoro/Sam Nujoma Road, Ubongo  
P.O Box 9524 
Tel: +255 222450206  
Email: nep@tbs.go.tz  
Website: www.tbs.go.tz  
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