G/TBT/N/UGA /1104  
1 August 2019  
(19-5048) Page: 1/2 
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  
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 [   ], other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Chicken 
feet; Cuts and offal, frozen (HS 020714); Poultry and eggs (ICS 67.120.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 2135:2019, 
Chicken feet — Specification, First Edition. Note: This draft standard was also notified to 
the SPS Committee. (14 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies th e requirements, test 
and sampling methods for Chicken feet including paws fit for food industries and 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  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. UNECE Standard chicken meat carcases and parts, 2012 edition, New York and 
Geneva, 2013  
2. US 779, Requirements for the transportation of meat and meat products  
3. US 737, Hygienic requirements for the production of packaged meat products 
(processed or manufactured  
4. US CAC/MRL 2, Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) and Risk Management 
Recommendations (RMRs) for residues of veterinary drugs in foods  
5. US CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
6. US CAC/RCP 58, Code of hygiene practice for meat  
7. US EAS 38, Labelling of prepackaged foods — Specification  
8. US 45, General standards for food addit ives 
9. US 1659, Materials in Contact with Food — Requirements for Packaging materials  G/TBT/N/UGA/1104  
 
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  10. US ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeds — Horizontal method for 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella, Enumeration by a 
miniaturized most probable number technique  
11. US ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeds — Horizontal method for 
enumeration of Coagulase - positive staphylococci. (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species), Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
12. US ISO 7251, Microbiology  of food and animal feeds — Horizontal method for 
detection, enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli – Most probable number 
technique  
13. US ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of Clostridium per fringens – Colony -count technique  
14. US 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  
15. US ISO 4832, Mi crobiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique  
16. US 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 
technique  
17. US ISO 4833 -2, Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms – Part 2: Colony count at 30 °C by the surface 
plating technique  
18. US EAS 12, Potable water — Specification  
19. US EAS 35, Fort ified food grade salt — Specification  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  December 2019.  
Proposed date of entry into force:  Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Industry and Cooperatives.  
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:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/TBT/UGA/19_4283_00_e.pdf