G/TBT/N/UGA/1576  
4 April 2022  
(22-2674) 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):  Husked or 
brown rice (HS code(s): 100620); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 
67.06 0) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS ARS 
859:2022, Brown rice — Specification, First Edition; (20 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements and 
methods of s ampling and test for brown rice of the varieties grown from Oryza spp., 
intended for human consumption or for further processing. This standard does not apply 
to parboiled rice.  
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. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
3. ARS 858, Rough (paddy) rice — Specification  
4. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  G/TBT/N/UGA/1576  
 
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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 moisture content — 
Routine reference method  
8. ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  
9. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
10. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
11. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
12. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived p roducts — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
13. ISO 6639 -1, Cereals and pulses — Determination of hidden insect infestation — 
Part 1: General principles  
14. ISO 6639 -2, Cereals and pulses — Determination of hidden ins ect infestation — 
Part 2: Sampling  
15. ISO 6639 -3, Cereals and pulses — Determination of hidden insect infestation — 
Part 3: Reference method  
16. ISO 6639 -4, Cereals and pulses — Determination of hidden insect infestation — 
Part 4: Rapid methods  
17. ISO 6888 -1, Microb iology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
18. ISO 6888 -2, Microbiology of food and animal fe eding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 2: Technique using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar 
medium  
19. 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 and MPN technique for low numbers  
20. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the de tection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
21. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High 
performance li quid chromatographic method  
22. ISO 20483, Cereals and pulses — Determination of the nitrogen content and 
calculation of the crude protein content — Kjeldahl method  
23. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumera tion of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
24. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
25. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesi um, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICPAES  G/TBT/N/UGA/1576  
 
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  26. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
27. United States Standards for Brown Rice for Processing, Updated July 2005  
28. ISO 7301:2011, Rice — Specification  
29. CODEX STAN 198 -1995, Standard for Rice  
30. ISO 5223, Test sieves for cereals  
31. ISO/TS 8000 -1:2011, Data quality — Part 1: Overview  
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  
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 StandardsPlot 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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