G/TBT/N/UGA/1361  
26 July 2021  
(21-5806) 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  
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):  Cocoa 
butter for cosmetic industry; Cocoa butter, fat and oil (HS 1804); Cocoa (ICS 67.140.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 2391:2021, 
Cocoa butter for cosmetic industry — Specification, First Editio n (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, 
sampling and test methods for cocoa butter for cosmetic industry.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
appli cable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 660, Animal and vegetable fats and oils —Determination of acid value and 
acidity  
2. ISO 662, Animal and vegetable fats and oils —Determination of moisture and 
volatile matter content  
3. ISO 3657, Animal and vegetable fats and oils –Determination of saponification 
value  
4. ISO 3960, Animal and vegetable fats and oils —Determina tion of peroxide value 
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  5. endpoint determination  
6. ISO 3961, Animal and vegetable fats and oils –Determination of iodine value  
7. ISO 5555, Animal and vegetable fats and oils —Sampling  
8. ISO 6321, Animal and vegetable fats and oils —Determinati on of melting point 
in open capillary tubes (Slip  
9. point)  
10. ISO 16212, Cosmetics — Microbiology — Enumeration of yeast and mould  
11. US EAS 346, Labelling of cosmetics - General requirements  
12. US EAS 847 -16, Cosmetics analytical methods Part 16: Determination of lead, 
mercury and arsenic content  
13. US ISO 6321, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of melting 
point in open capillary tubes   (slip point)  
14. US ISO 18416, Cosmetics —Microbiology —Detection of Candida albicans  
15. US ISO 22717, Cos metics —Microbiology —Detection of Pseudomonas 
aeruginosa  
16. US ISO 22718, Cosmetics —Microbiology —Detection of Staphylococcus aureus  
17. US ISO 21149, Cosmetics Microbiology Enumeration and detection of aerobic 
mesophilic bacteria  
18. KS 2862:2019, Cocoa butter -Specification  
19. US CODEX STAN 86:1981, Standard for cocoa butter  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  November 2021  
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:   
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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