G/TBT/N/UGA/1823  
16 August 2023  
(23-5543) 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 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):  Bread, 
pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing cocoa; 
communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, sealing 
wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread, gingerbread and the like, sweet 
biscuits, waffles and wafers with water content of <= 10%, rusks, toasted bread and 
similar toasted products) (HS code(s): 190590); Cereals, pulses and derived products 
(ICS code(s): 67.060); Cakes  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 1923: 
2023, Cake — Specification, Second Edition; (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for cake for 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; Protection of the 
environment; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and 
facilitating trade  G/TBT/N/UGA/1823  
 
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  8. Relevant documents:   
1. G/TBT/N/ UGA/1001  
2. G/TBT/N/UGA/1001/Add.1  
3. EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry — Code of practice  
4. US EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods — General requirements  
5. US EAS 900, Cereal and pulses — Sampling  
6. US ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in 
hydrochloric acid  
7. US ISO 6579, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of 
Salmonella spp.  
8. US ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
9. US ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
10. US ISO 7305, Milled cereal products -- Determination of fat acidity  
11. US ISO 21527 -2 Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count 
technique in pr oducts with water activity less than or equal to 0,95  
12. US 1923:2020, Cake – Specification  
13. https://www.craftybaking.com/learn/baked -goods/cakes/types  
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 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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