G/TBT/N/UGA/1037  
 
7 March 2019  
(19-1395) 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 [   ], 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):  Dressed 
poultry; Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 01.05, fresh, chilled or frozen 
(HS 0207); Poult ry and eggs (ICS 67.120.20)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  
DUS DEAS  953:2019, Dressed poultry – Specification, First Edition. (15 page(s), in 
English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for dressed poultry. It  applies to birds domesticated for human 
consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of de ceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. International Commission on Microbiological Specification for Foods (ICMSF) book 
8-2011 
2. EAS 38; Labelling of pre -packaged foods – Specification  
3. EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry – Code of practice  
4. Codex Stan 192, General standard for food additives  
5. CAC/MRL 2, Maximum residue limits for vete rinary drugs in food  
6. CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
7. CAC/RCP 58, Code of hygienic practice for Meat  
8. EAS 12, Potable water – Specification  
9. EAS 803, Nutrition labelling – Requirements  G/TBT/N/UGA/1037  
 
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  10. EAS 805, Use of nutritional and health claims – Requirement  
11. EAS 804, Claims on foods – Requirements  
12. Codex Stan 193, General standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed  
13. ISO 11290 -1, Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the detection 
and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes and of Listeri a spp.  
14. ISO 17294 -2, Water quality – Application of inductively coupled plasma mass 
spectrometry (ICP -MS) – Part 2: Determination of selected elements including 
uranium isotopes  
15. ISO 4833, Microbiology of foods and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms – Part 2: Colony count technique at 30 °C  
16. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms – Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate  technique  
17. ISO 5961, Water quality – Determination of cadmium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
18. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the detection of Salmonella spp.  
19. ISO 10272 -1, Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for detection 
and enumeration of  Campylobacter spp. – Part 1: Detection method  
20. ISO 17604, Microbiology of the food chain – Carcass sampling for microbiological 
analysis  
21. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products – Determination of lead 
content – Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
22. ISO 6637, Fruits, vegetables and derived products – Determination of mercury 
content – Flameless atomic absorption method  
23. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizonta l method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) – Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
24. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the detection and  enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli – Most probable 
number technique  
25. ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of  Clostridium perfringens – Colony count technique  
26. OIE Terrestrial Animal Health  Code 
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_1349_00_e.pdf