G/TBT/N/UGA/1573  
4 April 2022  
(22-2660) 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):  Prepared 
foods obtained by swelling or roasting cereals or cereal products, e.g. corn flakes (HS 
code(s): 190410); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS ARS 
468:2022, Sorghum flour — Specification, First Edition; (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of cont ent: This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for sorghum flour obtained from whole or decorticated sorghum grain 
of varieties Sorghum bicolour (L) Moench. for human consumption. It does not apply to 
grits or meal obt ained from sorghum.  
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 462, Sorghum grains — Specification  
2. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
3. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
4. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  G/TBT/N/UGA/1573  
 
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  5. CODEX Stan 192, General standard for food additives  
6. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
7. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content (Basic 
reference method)  
8. ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content — 
Routine reference method  
9. ISO 1871, Food and feed products — General guidelines for the determination of 
nitrogen by the Kje ldahl method  
10. ISO 2171, Determination of ash content  
11. ISO 4833, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms — Colony -count technique at 30 degrees 
C 
12. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determina tion crude fibre content — 
General method  
13. ISO 3310 -1, Test sieves of metal wire cloth  
14. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
15. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium conte nt — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
16. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
17. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
18. 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  
19. ISO 6888 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 2: Technique using ra bbit plasma fibrinogen agar 
medium  
20. 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 lo w numbers  
21. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli — Most 
probable number technique  
22. ISO 9648, Sorghum — Determination of tannin  
23. ISO 11085, Cereals, cereal s-based products and animal feeding stuffs — 
Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method  
24. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and  derived products — High-
performance liquid chromatographic method  
25. 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 
products with water activity les s than or equal to 0.95  
26. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICPAES  G/TBT/N/UGA/1573  
 
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  27. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
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; June 2022  
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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