G/TBT/N/TZA/570  
15 April 2021  
(21-3141) 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  
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):  Wheat or 
meslin flour (HS 1101) ; Prepackaged and prepared foods (ICS 67.230)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 741:2021 
Cassava wheat composite flour — Specification (4 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This draft East African Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for cassava -wheat composite flour for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, la belling; Protection of human health or safety; 
Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
• EAS 38, General standard for the labelling of pre -packaged foods  
• EAS 39, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry 
EAS 900  
• EAS 738- Fresh sweet cassava – Specification  
• EAS 778 - Fresh bitter cassava – Specification  
• EAS 1 - Wheat flour – Specification  
• EAS 51 - Wheat grains Specification  
• EAS 739, Dried cassava chips — Specification  
• EAS 744, Cassava and cassava products — Determination  of total cyanogens ─ 
Enzymatic assay method  
• EAS 82, Milled cereal products — Methods of test (General methods)  
• ISO 712 Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content — 
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  • ISO 21527 -2 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0,95  
• ISO 6579 -1- Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumer ation and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 4833 -1 Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30°C by the pour plate 
technique  
• ISO 16649 -2 Microbiolog y of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — Part 2: 
Colony -count technique at 44 degrees C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl beta -
D-glucuronide  
• ISO 7305 Milled cereal products  — Determination of fat acidity  
• ISO 5498 Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content — 
General method  
• ISO 5986 Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of diethyl ether extract  
• CODEX STAN 193 - Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in foods  
• EAS 103, General standard for food additives  
• EAS 740, Cassava flour — Specification  
• ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxins B1 and total content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2 , G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts, and derived products ─ High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  July 2021  
Proposed date of entry into force:  6 months from adoption  
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 95 24 
Dar Es Salaam  
+(255) 22 2450206  
nep@tbs.go.tz ; bahati.samillani@tbs.go.tz  
http://www.tbs.go.tz  
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