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Notifying Member: TANZANIA

If applicable, name of local government involved:

2.

Agency responsible: Tanzania Bureau of Standards

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Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, where applicable): Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding (excl. dog or cat food put up for retail sale) (HS code(s): 230990); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120); Poultry feeds

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Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable:

[X]     All trading partners

[ ]      Specific regions or countries:

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Title of the notified document: DARS 1836:2024, Poultry feeds — Specification, First Edition. Language(s): English. Number of pages: 31

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2025/SPS/TZA/25_01462_00_e.pdf

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Description of content: This Draft African Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for feed used for feeding poultry.

This standard applies to feed for feeding the following classes of poultry:

1._    chicken;

2._    turkey;

3._    goose;

4._    duck;

5._    ostrich;

6._    guinea fowl; and

7._    quail.

Note: This Draft African Standard was also notified under TBT Committee.

7.

Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [X] animal health, [ ] plant protection, [ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [ ] protect territory from other damage from pests.

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Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:

[ ]        Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g. title or serial number of Codex standard or related text):

[ ]        World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g. Terrestrial or Aquatic Animal Health Code, chapter number):

[ ]        International Plant Protection Convention (e.g. ISPM number):

[X]       None

Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?

[ ] Yes   [ ] No

If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the international standard:

9.

Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:

1._    DARS 2139, Code of practice on good animal feeding

2._    DARS 1828, Animal feeds — Code of practice for production, processing, storage, transport, and distribution

3._    AOAC Official Method 977.26, Clostridium botulinum and its toxins in foods — Microbiological method

4._    AOAC Official Method 994.12, Amino acids in feeds — Performic acid oxidation with acid hydrolysis — Sodium metabisulfite method

5._    AOAC Official Method 996.06, Fat (total, saturated, and unsaturated) in foods — Hydrolytic extraction gas chromatographic method

6._    AOAC Official Method 999.13, Lysine, methionine, and threonine in feed grade amino acids and premixes

7._    ISO 2591-1, Test sieving — Part 1: Methods using test sieves of woven wire cloth and perforated metal plate

8._    ISO 5510, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of available lysine

9._    ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash

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

11._  ISO 6490-1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: Titrimetric method

12._  ISO 6491, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of phosphorus content — Spectrometric method

13._  ISO 6492, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of fat content

14._  ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moisture and other volatile matter content

15._  ISO 6497, Animal feeding stuffs — Sampling

16._  ISO 6654, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of urea content

17._  ISO 6865, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude fibre content — Method with intermediate filtration

18._  ISO 6866, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of free and total gossypol

19._  ISO 6869, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of the contents of calcium, copper, iron, magnesium, manganese, potassium, sodium and zinc — Method using atomic absorption spectrometry

20._  ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens — Colony-count technique

21._  ISO 9831, Animal feeding stuffs, animal products, and faeces or urine — Determination of gross calorific value — Bomb calorimeter method

22._  ISO 13903, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of amino acids content

23._  ISO 13904, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of tryptophan content

24._  ISO 14718, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1 content of mixed feeding stuffs — Method using high-performance liquid chromatography

25._  ISO 16634-1, Food products — Determination of the total nitrogen content by combustion according to the Dumas principle and calculation of the crude protein content — Part 1: Oilseeds and animal feeding stuffs

26._  ISO 17375, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1

27._  ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP-AES

28._  ISO/TS 17764-2, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of the content of fatty acids — Part 2: Gas chromatographic method

29._  ISO 15213-2, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection and enumeration of Clostridium spp. Part 2: Enumeration of Clostridium perfringens by colony-count technique

30._  AOAC 2001.04-2001, Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn and corn flakes

(available in English)

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Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy): To be determined and notified.

Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

11.

Proposed date of entry into force: [ ] Six months from date of publication, and/or (dd/mm/yy): To be determined.

[X]     Trade facilitating measure

12.

Final date for comments: [X] Sixty days from the date of circulation of the notification and/or (dd/mm/yy): 19 April 2025

Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [ ] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

Tanzania Bureau of Standards

Ubungo, Morogoro Road/Sam Nujoma Road

P. O. Box 9524

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

Tel: +(255 22) 245 0298

       +(255 22) 245 0206

Fax: +(255 22) 245 0959

E-mail: info@tbs.go.tz

Website: http://www.tbs.go.tz

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Text(s) available from: [ ] National Notification Authority, [ ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e-mail address (if available) of other body:

Tanzania Bureau of Standards

Ubungo, Morogoro Road/Sam Nujoma Road

P. O. Box 9524

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA

Tel: +(255 22) 245 0298

       +(255 22) 245 0206

Fax: +(255 22) 245 0959

E-mail: info@tbs.go.tz

Website: http://www.tbs.go.tz