G/TBT/N/UGA/1850  
23 October 2023  
(23-7108) 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):  Smoked 
fish, incl. fillets (excl. offal, Pacific salmon, Atlantic salmon, Danube salmon, herring, 
trout, tilapia, catfish, carp, eels, Nile perch and snakeheads) (HS code(s): 030549); Fish 
and fishery products (ICS code(s): 67.120.30); Smoked fish, smoke -flavoured fish; 
smoke -dried fish  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
1117:2023, Smoked fish, smoke -flavoured and smoke -dried fish — Specification, First 
Edition; (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies quality and safety 
requirements, test methods and sampling for smoke d, smoke -flavoured and smoke -dried 
fish products. It includes whole fish, fillets, and sliced fish. The standard applies to fish, 
either for direct human consumption, further processing, or for addition into speciality or 
minced products where fish constit utes only part of the edible contents.  
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/1850  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food ― Silver diethyldibocarbamate method  
2. AOAC 972.23, Lead in fish ― Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method  
3. AOAC 977.13, Histamine in sea food — Fluorometric method  
4. AOAC 973.34, Cadmium in food ― Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method  
5. AOAC 983.20, Mercury (methyl) in fish and shellfish― Gas chromatographic 
method  
6. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
7. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
8. CAC/GL 50, General guideline on sampling  
9. CAC/RCP 52, Code of practice for fish and fishery products  
10. ISO 1442, Meat and meat products — Determination of moisture content 
(Reference method)  
11. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms Part 1: Colony -count technique at 30 degrees C 
by the pour plate technique  
12. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detecti on of Salmonella spp.  
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 16649 -3, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of beta glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — Part 3: Detection 
and most probable number technique using 5 -bromo -4-chloro -3-indolyl -ß-D-
glucuronide  
15. ISO/TS 17919, Microbiology of the food chain — Polymerase chain rea ction (PCR) 
for the detection of food -borne pathogens — Detection of botulinum type A, B, E 
and F neurotoxin -producing clostridia  
16. ISO 17993, Water quality — Determination of 15 polycyclic aromatic 
hydrocarbons (PAH) in water by HPLC with fluorescence detec tion after liquid — 
Liquid extraction  
17. ISO 21527 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 1: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity greater than 0,95  
18. ISO/TS 21872 ( all parts), Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — 
Horizontal method for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp.  
19. EAS 876:2017, Smoked fish, smoke -flavoured and smoke -dried fish — 
Specification  
20. CODEX STAN 311:2013, Standard for s moked fish, smoke -flavoured fish and 
smoke -dried fish  
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/1850  
 
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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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