G/TBT/N/UGA/1630  
28 June 2022  
(22-4982) 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):  - Of 
rabbits or hares (HS code(s): 020810); Meat and meat products (ICS code(s): 
67.120.10), Rabbit meat  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
1250: 2022, Rabbit meat — Carcasses and cuts, First Edition  
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.; (15 page(s), 
in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the quality and safety 
requirements, sampling and referenced test methods for rabbit meat (carcass and cuts) 
intended for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of u rgent 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; Cost sav ing and 
productivity enhancement  G/TBT/N/UGA/1630  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 971.21, Mercury in food. Flameless atomic absorption Spectrophotometry 
method  
2. AOAC 999.10, Lead, Cadmium, Zinc, Copper, and Iron in Foods. Atomic 
Absorption Spectrophotometry after Microwave Digestion  
3. CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
4. CAC/RCP 58, Code of hygienic practice for meat  
5. CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
6. CX/MRL 2, Maximum residue limits for veterinary drugs in food ARS 56; Labelling 
of pre -packaged  foods — Specification  
7. ARS 53, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
8. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour p late technique  
9. ISO 5961, Water quality — Determination of cadmium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
10. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
11. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and anima l feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
12. ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of Clostridium perfringens — Colony count technique  
13. ISO 10272 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for detection 
and enumeration of Campylobacter spp. — Part 1: Detection method  
14. ISO 11290 -1, Microbiology of the f ood chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeria spp. — Part 
1: Detection method  
15. ISO 13720, Meat and meat products — Enumeration of presumptive 
Pseudomonas spp.  
16. ISO 16654, Microbiology of food and an imal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Escherichia coli O157  
17. ISO 16649 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of betaglucuronidase - 
18. positive Escherichia coli — Part 1: Colony -count technique at 44 de grees C using 
membranes and 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl beta -D-glucuronide  
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/1630  
 
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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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