G/SPS/N/UGA/200  
 
29 June 2022  
(22-5045) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures  Original: English  
 
  NOTIFICATION  
1. Notifying Member:  UGANDA  
If applicable, name of local government involved:   
2. Agency responsible:  Uganda National Bureau of Standards  
3. Products covered (provide tariff item number(s) as specified in national 
schedules deposited with the WTO; ICS numbers should be provided in addition, 
where applicable):  Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.060), 
dry cowpeas  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to the extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners   
[ ] Specific regions or countries:   
5. Title of the notified document:  DUS DARS 867: 2022, Dry cowpeas — Specification, 
First Edition . Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  16 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/SPS/UGA/22_4384_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This African Standard specifies the requirements and methods of 
sampling and test for dry cowpeas of the varieties (cultivars) grown from 
Vigna  unguiculata  (L.) Sync. Vigna sinensis  (L.) intended for human consumption. It does 
not apply to processed cowpea s. 
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, iden tify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) :  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant  Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[X] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[ ] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   G/SPS/N/UGA/200  
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
• Uganda Gazette  
• EAS 46:2011, Dry beans — Specification  
• United States Standards for Beans, Effective December 19, 2008  
• Beans, Official Grain Grading Guide, 1 August 2012, Canadian Grain Commission  
• Pulses Grading and Marking Rules, 2003, Ministry of Agriculture, India, 7 April 2004  
• CODEX STAN 171:1989 (Rev. 1:1995), Standard for Certain Pulses  
• Malawi Standard, MBS 245:1991, Bean — Specification  
• Department of Agriculture, Regulation Gazette No. 23571, 5 July 2002, Agricultural 
Product Standards Act, 1990 (Act No. 119 of 1990), Regulations relating to the 
grading, packing and marking of dry beans intended for sale in the Republic of South 
Africa  
• Ethiopian Standards Regulatio ns No. 12/1990, Pulses  
• ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
• ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
• CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and 
feed 
• ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, si ze, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
• ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry  
• ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
• ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — 
Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
• ISO 243 33, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
• ISO/TS 16634 -2, Food products — Determination of the total nitrogen content by 
combustion according to the Dumas principle and calculation of the crude protein 
content — Part 2: Cereals, pulses and milled cereal p roducts  
• 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 less than or equal to 0.95  
• ISO 24557, Pulses — Determination o f moisture content — Air-oven method  
• ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, 
magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, 
lead and cadmium by ICPAES  
(available in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
Proposed date of publication (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
11. Proposed date of entry into force: [  ] Six months from date of publication , and/or  
(dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
[X] Trade facilitat ing measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 28 August 2022  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (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 61 23 
E-mail: info@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  G/SPS/N/UGA/200  
 
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  13. Text(s) available from: [  ] National Notification Authority, [  ] National Enquiry 
Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (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