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Notifying Member: BURUNDI, KENYA, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA

If applicable, name of local government involved (Articles 3.2 and 7.2):

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Agency responsible:

Tanzania Bureau of Standards

Ubungo, Morogoro Road/Sam Nujoma Road

P. O. Box 9524

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

Tel. No: +255 22 245 0298/+255 22 245 0206

Email: nep@tbs.go.tz

Website: www.tbs.go.tz

Telefax: +255 22 2450959

E-mail: info@tbs.go.tz

Website: http://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:

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [ ], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Maize "corn" flour (HS code(s): 110220); Groats and meal of maize "corn" (HS code(s): 110313); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)Milled maize (corn) products

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DEAS 44: 2024, Milled maize (corn) products — Specification, sixth Edition; (14 page(s), in English)

Note: This Draft East African Standard was also notified under SPS committee

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Description of content: This Final Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for whole maize meal, granulated maize meal, sifted maize meal, maize grits and maize flour from the grains of common maize (Zeamays L.) intended for human consumption.

This standard does not apply to fortified milled maize (corn) products and maize grits intended for brewing, manufacturing of starch and any other industrial use.

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Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: Consumer information, labelling; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade; Cost saving and productivity enhancement

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Relevant documents:

1._    AOAC 965.22, Sorting corn grits. Sieving method

2._    EAS 2, Maize grain — Specification

3._    EAS 38, Labelling of pre-packaged foods — General requirements

4._    EAS 39, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice

5._    EAS 900, Cereal, pulses and their products — Sampling

6._    EAS 901, Cereals and pulses and their products — Test methods

7._    ISO 2171, Cereals, pulses and by-products — Determination of ash yield by incineration

8._    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

9._    ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content — General method

10._  ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid

11._  ISO 6561-1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

12._  ISO 6561-2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry

13._  ISO 6579-1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp.

14._  ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method

15._  ISO 6888-1, Microbiology of food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulase- positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird- Parker agar medium

16._  ISO 7305, Milled cereal products — Determination of fat acidity

17._  ISO 11085, Cereals, cereals-based products and animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method

18._  ISO 16649-2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of betaglucuronidase-positive Escherichia coli — Part 2: Colony-count technique at 44 degrees C using 5- bromo-4- chloro-3- indolyl beta-D-glucuronide

19._  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

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined and notified

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

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Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

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Texts available from: National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone or 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