G/TBT/N/BDI/248  
G/TBT/N/KEN/1269  
G/TBT/N/RWA/678  
G/TBT/N/TZA/799  
G/TBT/N/UGA/1603  
13 June 2022  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  BURUNDI, KENYA, RWANDA, TANZANIA, 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@u nbs.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):  - Other 
(HS code(s): 151590); Cosmetics. Toiletries (ICS code(s): 71.100.70)  
5. Title, number of p ages and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 967 -1: 
2022, Butter for cosmetic use – Specification Part 1: Shea butter, Second Edition; (12 
page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, 
samp ling and test methods for shea butter for cosmetic use derived from the kernels of 
the sheanuts Vitellaria paradoxa  and Vitellaria Nilotica . This standard does not cover 
products for which therapeutic claims are made.  
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 fac ilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. Dynasty Shea & Essentials, Organically Refined Shea Butter Specifications  
2. Quality characteristics of West African shea butter (Vitellaria Paradoxa) and 
approaches to extend shelf -life by Hee Seung Nahm, May, 2011  G/TBT/N/BDI/248, G/TBT/N/KEN/1269, G/TBT/N/RWA/678, G/TBT/N/TZA/799, 
G/TBT/N/UGA/1603  
 
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  3. Shea butter export guide, September 2005, by Peter Lovett, Emily Miller, Philip 
Mensah, Vanessa Adams and Catherine Kannenberg at the West Africa Trade Hub 
(WATH).  
4. Safety Assessment of Butyrospermum parkii (Shea) -Derived Ingredients as Used 
in Cosmetics  
5. Journal of Food Research; Vol. 2, No. 5; 2013.Effect of Nut Treatments on Shea 
Butter  
6. Physicochemical Criteria and Wrapper Hygienic Quality Influence on 
Microbiological Properties  
7. Journal of Stored Products and Postharvest Research Vol. 3(3), pp. 24 – 29, 8  
February, 2012,  
8. Microbiological and physicochemical characterization of shea butter sold on Benin 
markets.  
9. SCCS/1564/15, The sccs notes of guidance for the testing of cosmetic ingredients 
and their safety evaluation, 9th revision, 25 April 2016  
10. US 1635 20 16, Shea butter – Specification  
11. EAS 346, Labelling of cosmetics — General requirements  
12. EAS 846, Glossary of terms relating to the cosmetic industry  
13. EAS 847 -16, Cosmetics — Analytical methods — Part 16: Determination of lead, 
mercury and arsenic content  
14. ISO 660, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of acid value and 
acidity  
15. ISO 662, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of moisture and 
volatile matter content  
16. ISO 663, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of insoluble 
impurities content  
17. ISO 3596, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of unsaponifiable 
matter — Method using diethyl ether extraction  
18. ISO 3657, Animal and vegetable fats and oils – Determination of saponification 
value  
19. ISO 3960, Animal and veget able fats and oils — Determination of peroxide value 
— Iodometric (visual) endpoint determination  
20. ISO 3961, Animal and vegetable fats and oils – Determination of iodine value  
21. ISO 4831, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of coliforms — Most probable number 
technique  
22. ISO 5555, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Sampling  
23. ISO 6321, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of melting point 
in open capillary tubes (Slip point)  
24. ISO 8294,  Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of copper, iron 
and nickel contents — Graphite furnace atomic absorption method  
25. ISO 15774, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of cadmium 
content by direct graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry  
26. ISO 18416, Cosmetics — Microbiology — Detection of candida albicans  
27. ISO 21149, Cosmetics -- Microbiology -- Enumeration and detection of aerobic 
mesophilic bacteria  G/TBT/N/BDI/248, G/TBT/N/KEN/1269, G/TBT/N/RWA/678, G/TBT/N/TZA/799, 
G/TBT/N/UGA/1603  
 
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  28. ISO 21527 (all parts), Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuf fs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds  
29. ISO 22716, Cosmetics — Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) — Guidelines on 
Good Manufacturing Practices  
30. ISO 22717, Cosmetics — Microbiology —Detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa  
31. ISO 22718, Cosmetics — Microbiology — Detection of Staphylococcus aureus  
32. Dynasty Shea & Essentials, Organically Refined Shea Butter Specifications  
33. Quality characteristics of West African shea butter (Vitellaria Paradoxa) and 
approaches to extend shelf -life by Hee Seung Nahm, May, 2011  
34. Shea butter export guide, September 2005, by Peter Lovett, Emily Miller, Philip 
Mensah, Vanessa Adams and Catherine Kannenberg at the West Africa Trade Hub 
(WATH).  
35. Safety Assessment of Butyrospermum parkii (Shea) -Derived Ingr edients as Used 
in Cosmetics  
36. Journal of Food Research; Vol. 2, No. 5; 2013.Effect of Nut Treatments on Shea 
Butter Physicochemical Criteria and Wrapper Hygienic Quality Influence on 
Microbiological Properties  
37. Journal of Stored Products and Postharvest Rese arch Vol. 3(3), pp. 24 – 29, 8 
February, 2012, Microbiological and physicochemical characterization of shea 
butter sold on Benin markets.  
38. SCCS/1564/15, The sccs notes of guidance for the testing of cosmetic ingredients 
and their safety evaluation, 9th revi sion, 25 April 2016  
39. US 1635 2016, Shea butter – 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  
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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