G/TBT/N/UGA/1615  
23 June 2022  
(22-4872) 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:  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 different from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  - Other : 
(HS code(s): 04089); Poultry and eggs (ICS code(s): 67.120.20), Hen eggs products  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
1203:2022, Hens egg products — Specification, First Edition; (40 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies quality and safety 
requirements, sa mpling and test methods for products made from eggs obtained from 
hens of the species Gallus gallus intended for use in the manufacture of food for human 
consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
• ARS 56:2016, Pre -packaged foods — Labelling  
• AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food. Silver diethyldithiocarbamate  
• AOAC 971.21, Mercury in food. Flameless atomic absorption s  
• AOAC 972.25, Lead in food. Atomic absorption spectrophotome  G/TBT/N/UGA/1615  
 
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  • AOAC 973.34, Cadmium in food. Atomic absorption spectrophot  
• CODEX STAN 192 -1995 general standard for food additives  
• ISO 4833 -1 Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeratio n of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 °C by the pour plate 
technique  
• ISO 6888 -1 Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coagulasepositive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species) — Part 1: Method using Baird -Parker agar medium  
• ISO 6579 -1 for Salmonella Detection in the Food Chain  
• 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 t echnique at 44 degrees C using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl beta -
D-glucuronide  
• Regulations Governing the Voluntary Grading of Shell Eggs, 7 CFR Part 56, 
Effective March 30, 2008  
• United States Standards, Grades, and Weight Classes for Shell Eggs, AMS 56, 
Effective July 20,  
• UNECE EP 63:1986/1994, Hens egg products for use in the food industry  
• Codex Alimentarius website: 
http://www.codexalimentarius.net/mrls/vetdrugs/jsp/vetd_q -e.jsp 
• USDA Foreign Agricultural Service website: http://www.mrldatabase.com  
• USDA Agri cultural Marketing Service website: 
http://www.ams.usda.gov/AMSv1.0/Standards  
• European 
Union: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/sectors/pharmaceuticals/veterinaryuse/ 
maximum -residue -limits/index_en.htm  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
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:   
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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