G/TBT/N/UGA/1568  
15 March 2022  
(22-2276) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA   
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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 dif ferent from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Pearl 
millet grains; - Millet : (HS 10082); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
463:2022, Pearl millet grains — Specification, First Edition (20 page(s ), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, 
methods of sampling and test for whole and decorticated pearl millet of the species 
Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br. intended for food consumption. This standard  also 
specifies grading requirements for pearl millet grains. It does not apply to processed pearl 
millet.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive pract ices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the 
environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and 
facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
3. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  G/TBT/N/UGA/1568  
 
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  4. CODEX STAN  193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
5. ISO 520, Cereals and pulses — Determination of the mass of 1000 grains  
6. ISO 605 , Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, 
and species and variety — Test methods  
7. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content 
(Basic reference method)  
8. ISO 712 , Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content — 
Routine reference method  
9. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived prod ucts — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
10. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables  and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
11. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
12. ISO 9648, Sorghum — Determination of tannin  
13. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B 1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B 1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
14. 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  
15. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
16. ISO 27 085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP -AES  
17. ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs -- Determination of crude ash  
18. ISO 725 1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
19. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enume ration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
20. EAS 284:2012, Pearl millet grains — Specification  
21. CODEX STAN 169:1987 (Rev.1:1995), Whole and decorticated pearl millet 
grains  
22. CODEX STAN 228:2001 (Rev.1:2004), General methods of  analysis for 
contaminants  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2022  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/UGA/1568  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
Plot 2 -12 ByPass Link, Bweyogerere Industrial and Business Park  
P.O. Box 6329  
Kampala, Uganda  
Tel: +(256) 4 1733 3250/1/2  
Fax: +(256) 4 1428 6123  
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  
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