G/TBT/N/UGA/1623  
24 June 2022  
(22-4906) 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):  - Other 
(HS code(s): 071390); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title,  number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 870: 
2022, Lentils — Specification, First edition; (18 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements and 
methods of sampling and te st for shelled whole lentils of varieties (cultivars) grown from 
Lens culinaris Medic. Syn. Lens esculenta Moench. 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; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  G/TBT/N/UGA/1623  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
• ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
• ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
• AOAC Official Method 999.10:1999, Determination of lead, cadmium, copper, iron 
and zinc in foods — Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after microwave 
digestion  
• AOAC Official Method 999.11:1999, Determination of lead, cadmium, copper, iron 
and zinc in foods — Atomic absorption spectrophotometry after dry ashing  
• AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromato graphy with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
• CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
• ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
• ISO 6579, Mic robiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
• ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aure us 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
• ISO 6888 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 2: Technique using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar 
medium  
• ISO 6888 -3, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 3: Detection an d MPN technique for low numbers  
• ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
• ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatox in B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
• 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 equal to 0.95  
• ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
• ISO 24557, Pulses — Determination of moisture content — Air-oven method  
• EAS 760:2012, Lentils — Specif ication  
• CODEX STAN 171:1989 (Rev.1:1995), Standard for Certain Pulses  
• Lentils, Official Grain Grading Guide, August 1, 2012, Canadian Grain Commission  
• United States Standards for Lentils, Effective December 19, 2008  
• Ethiopian Standard, ES 17:2001, Pulses — Grading of lentils  
• Australian Pulse Standards, 2012/2013: Whole lentils — Minimum 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  G/TBT/N/UGA/1623  
 
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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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