Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade - Notification - Tanzania - Boflo bread

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

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:

Zanzibar Bureau of Standard (ZBS)

P.O.Box 1136

Zanzibar

Tel: +255 24 2232225

Fax: +255 24 2232225

E-mail: info@zbs.go.tz

Web: www.zbs.go.tz

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): Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the like, sweet biscuits, waffles, wafers not mentioned, rusks, toasted bread and similar toasted products) (HS code(s): 190590); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)

5.

Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: PCD 643: 2024, Boflo bread — Specification,Second edition

Note: This Draft Tanzania Standard was also notified under SPS committee; (12 page(s), in English)

6.

Description of content: This draft Zanzibar National Standard specifies the requirements and methods of sampling and test for boflo bread intended for direct human consumption

7.

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

8.

Relevant documents:

1._    CXS 192, General Standard for Food Additives

2._    CXS 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed

3._    EAS 900, Cereals and pulses — Sampling

4._    ISO 712-1, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content Part 1: Reference method

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

6._    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

7._    ISO 4833-2, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of microorganisms — Part 2: Colony count at 30 °C by the surface plating technique

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

9._    ISO 16649-2, Microbiology 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-indoly beta-D- glucuronide

10.ISO 21527-2 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

11.ZNS 22, Wheat flour – Specification

12.ZNS 52, Fortified edible salt— Specification

13.ZNS 57, Potable water — Specification

14.ZNS 61, Packaging and labeling of food

15.ZNS 296, Code of hygienic practices for bakeries

16.ZNS 420, Fortified wheat flour — Specification

17.ZNS 706, Baker's yeast — Specification

9.

Proposed date of adoption: To be determined and notified

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