G/TBT/N/UGA/1817  
2 August 2023  
(23-5239) 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 [  ], 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):  Dried, 
shelled chickpeas "garbanzos", whether or not skinned or split (HS code(s): 071320); 
Cereals , pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060); Dry chickpeas  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
866:2023, Dry chickpeas — Specification, First Edition  
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to th e SPS Committee.; (18 page(s), 
in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for dry chickpeas of the varieties (cultivars) grown from Cicer arietinum 
(L.) intended 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; 
Harm onization; 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  G/TBT/N/UGA/1817  
 
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  3. AOAC Official Method 999.10:1999, Determination of lead, cadmium, copper, iron 
and zinc in foods — Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after microwave 
digestion  
4. AOAC Official Method 999.11:1999, Determination of lead, cadmium, copper, iron 
and zinc in foods — Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after dry ashing  
5. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
6. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
7. ISO 605, Pulses — Determin ation of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
8. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
9. ISO 6888 (all parts), Microbiology of food and anim al feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus 
aureus and other species)  
10. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presum ptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
11. 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 e qual to 0.95  
12. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
13. ISO 24557, Pulses — Determination of moisture content — Air-oven method  
14. EAS 754:2012, Chickpeas — Specification  
15. Chickpeas Official Grain Grading Guide, August 1, 2012, Canadian Grain 
Commission  
16. Pulses Grading and Marking Rules, 2003, Schedule XII, Grade designation and 
definition of quality of Kabuli Chana, Ministry of Agriculture, India, 7th April 2004  
17. Ethiopian Standards, ES 18:2001, Pulses — Grading of chickpeas  
18. CODEX STAN 171:1989 (Rev. 1:19 95), Standard for Certain Pulses  
19. Australian Pulse Standards, 2012/2013 — Chickpeas minimum receival standards  
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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