G/TBT/N/UGA/1564  
15 March 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:  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 dif ferent from above:   
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [   ], 5.6.2 [X], 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):  Sorghum 
grains; Grain sorghum (HS 1007); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
462:2022, Sorghum grains — Specification, First Edition (20 page(s), in En glish)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for sorghum grains (whole or decorticated) of varieties (cultivars) 
grown from Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench intended for human food. This stan dard does 
not apply to processed sorghum.  
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 safet y; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
3. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
4. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  G/TBT/N/UGA/1564  
 
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  5. ISO 605 , Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, 
and species and variety — Test methods  
6. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content 
(Basic reference method)  
7. ISO 712 , Cereals and cereal products — Determination of mo isture content — 
Routine reference method  
8. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
9. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
10. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
11. ISO 6637, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of mercury 
content — Flameless atomic absorption method  
12. ISO 9648, Sorghum — Determination of tannin  
13. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B 1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B 1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
14. ISO 24333, Cerea ls and cereal products — Sampling  
15. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP -AES  
16. ISO 6579, Microbiology of foo d and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
17. EAS 757:2011, Sorghum grains — Specification  
18. CODEX STAN 172:1989 (Rev.1:1995), Standard for Sorghum Grains  
19. United Stated Standards for Sorghum, Effective June 2008  
20. Malawi Standard, MBS 612:1997, Sorghum — Determination of tannin content  
21. Ethiopian Standard, ES 674:2001, Sorghum — Specification  
22. Department of Agriculture — South African Government Notice No. R. 532 of 
16th May 2008, Regulations relating the Grading, packi ng and marking of 
sorghum intended for sale in the Republic of South Africa  
23. ISO 9648:1988, Sorghum — Determination of tannin content published by the 
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)  
24. CODEX STAN 228:2001 (Rev.1:2004), General methods o f analysis for 
contaminants  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2022  
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  G/TBT/N/UGA/1564  
 
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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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