G/TBT/N/UGA/1819  
2 August 2023  
(23-5241) 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 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):  Wheat or 
meslin flour. (HS code(s): 1101); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 
67.06 0); Wheat flour  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 470: 
2023, Wheat flour — Specification, First Edition  
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.; (18 page(s), 
in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, test 
methods and sampling for wheat flour prepared from common wheat (Triticum aestivum 
L.) or club wheat (Triticum compactum Host), or their mixtures intended for human 
consump tion. 
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; 
Harmonizati on; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  G/TBT/N/UGA/1819  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
3. ARS 465, Wheat — Specification  
4. CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
5. CODEX STAN 150, Standard for food grade salt  
6. ISO 1871, Food and feed products — General guidelines for the determination of 
nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method  
7. ISO 2171, Determination of ash content  
8. ISO 2591 -1, Test sieving — Part 1: Methods using test sieves of woven wire cloth 
and perforated metal plate  
9. ISO 4833, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms — Colony -count technique at 30 degrees 
C 
10. ISO 5498, Agricultural food product s — Determination crude fibre content — 
General method  
11. ISO 6540, Maize — Determination of moisture content (on milled grains and on 
whole grains)  
12. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella s pp. 
13. ISO 6888 (all parts), Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus 
aureus and other species)  
14. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the to tal content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High-
performance liquid chromatographic method  
15. 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-indolyl beta -
D-glucuronide  
16. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: C olony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
17. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
18. EAS 1:2012, Wheat flour — Specification  
19. CODEX STAN 152 -1985 (Rev. 1 - 1995), CODEX Standard for wheat flour  
20. Department of Agr iculture, Regulation Gazette No. 30782, 22 February 2008, 
Agricultural Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990), Regulations 
relating to the grading, packing and marking of wheat products intended for sale 
in the Republic of South Africa  
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  G/TBT/N/UGA/1819  
 
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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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