G/TBT/N/UGA/1575  
4 April 2022  
(22-2665) 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):  Millet 
(excl. grain sorghum, and seed for sowing) (HS code(s): 100829); Cereals, pulses and 
derived  products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS ARS 
857:2022, Finger millet grains — Specification, First Edition; (0 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard speci fies the requirements, 
methods of sampling and test for finger millet grains of varieties (cultivars) grown from 
Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertner 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; 
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/1575  
 
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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 produ cts — 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 B1, and the total content o f 
aflatoxin B1, 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 c ount technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
15. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
16. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese , cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICPAES  
17. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination crude fibre content — 
General method  
18. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumerati on of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
19. ISO 6579 - Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
20. EAS 758:2012, Finger millet grains — Specification  
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; June 2022  G/TBT/N/UGA/1575  
 
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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 StandardsPlot 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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