G/TBT/N/UGA/1023  
 
7 February 2019  
(19-0698) 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 [ 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): Dried 
mango; Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens, fresh or 
dried. (HS 0804). Fruits  and derived products (ICS 67.080.10).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS 
DEAS  946:2019, Dried mango - Specification, Third Edition. (24 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This Draft Uganda Standard spe cifies requirements and 
methods of sampling and test for dried mangoes from Mangifera indica intended for direct 
human consumption or for other use in the food industry.  
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; 
Harmonization; Reduci ng trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 999.11, Determination of lead, iron, copper and zinc in food  
2. EAS 38, General standard for labeling of prepackaged foods  
3. EAS 39, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry  
4. 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  
5. ISO 4832, Microbiology of foo d and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coliforms - Colony -count technique  
6. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology 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  
7. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feedingstuffs - Horizontal methods for 
the detection of Salmonella spp.  G/TBT/N/UGA/1023  
 
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  8. ISO 6636 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products - Determination of zinc 
content - Part 2: Atomic absorption spectrometric method  
9. ISO 6634, Fruits, vegetables and derived products - Determination of arsenic 
content - Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method  
10. ISO 21872, Microbiology of the foo d chain - Horizontal method for the detection 
of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae and 
Vibrio vulnificus  
11. ISO 7952, Fruits, vegetables and derived products - Determination of copper 
content - Method using flame atomic abs orption spectrometry  
12. ISO 2447, Fruit and vegetable products - Determination of tin  
9. Proposed date of adoption: June 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_0724_00_e.pdf