G/TBT/N/UGA/1905  
22 January 2024  
(24-0441) 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):  Insects, 
fit for human consumption (HS code(s): 041010); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 
65.120 ) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
1844:2023, Dried insect products for compounded animal feeds — Specification, First 
Edition.; (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This African Standard specifi es the requirements, sampling, and 
test methods for dried insect products as sources of protein for compounded animal feeds.  
Note: This African Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.  
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; Protection of animal or plant 
life or health; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and 
facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
2. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
3. CAC / RCP 1, General principles of food hygiene  G/TBT/N/UGA/1905  
 
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  4. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique  
5. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms — part 1: colony count at 30 °c by the pour plate 
techn ique 
6. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — determination of crude fibre content — 
general method  
7. ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — determination of nitrogen content and 
calculation of crude protein content — part 1: Kjeldahl method  
8. ISO 5984, Animal feed ing stuffs — determination of crude ash  
9. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
10. ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — determination of calcium content — part 1: 
titrimetric method  
11. ISO 6491, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of phosphorus content — 
Spectrometric method  
12. ISO 6495, Animal feeding stuffs — determination of water -soluble chlorides 
content — part 1: titrimetric method  
13. ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — determination of moisture and other volatile 
matter content  
14. ISO 6497, Animal feeding stuffs — sampling  
15. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of salmonella — part 1: detection of salmonella spp.  
16. ISO 11085, Cereals -based products and an imal feeding stuffs — determination of 
crude fat and total fat content by the randall extraction method  
17. ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — horizontal method 
for the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive escherichia coli — part 2: 
colony -count technique at 44 degrees c using 5 -bromo4 -chloro -3-indolyl beta -d-
glucuronide  
18. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — determination of aflatoxin b1, and the total content of 
aflatoxins b1, b2, g1 and g2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High-
perfor mance liquid chromatographic method  
19. ISO 17375, Animal feeding stuffs — determination of aflatoxin B1 ISO 27085, 
Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, 
magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, 
arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICPAES  
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/1905  
 
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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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