G/TBT/N/UGA/924  
 
8 October 2018  
(18-6183) 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 [  ], 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): 
Environmental water, waste water; Waters, including natural or artificial mineral waters 
and aerated waters, not containing added sugar or oth er sweetening matter nor 
flavoured; ice and snow. (HS 2201). Drinking water (ICS 13.060.20).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS 2087: 
2018, Standard Test Method for Purgeable Organic Compounds in Water Using Headspace 
Sampling, First Edition. (17 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: This draft Uganda standard specifies a method for the 
determination of most purgeable organic compounds in drinking water that boil below 
200°C and are less than 2% soluble in w ater. It covers the low μg/L to low mg/L 
concentration range. This test method was developed for the analysis of drinking water. 
It is also applicable to many environmental and waste waters when validation, consisting 
of recovering known concentrations of compounds of interest added to representative 
matrices, is included.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Protection of human health or safety; Protection of the environment; 
Harmonization  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ASTM D1129 -13, Standard Terminology Relating to Water  
2. ASTM D1193 -06(2018), Standard Specification for Reagent Water  
3. ASTM D2908 -91(2017), Standard Practice for Measuring Volatile Organic Matter 
in Water by Aqueous -Injection Gas Chromatography  
4. ASTM E355 -96(2014), Standard Practice for Gas Chromatography Terms and 
Relationships  
5. Bellar, T. A., and Lichtenberg, J. J., "The Determination of Volatile Organic 
Compounds at the μg/L Level in Water by Gas Chromatography, " EPA-670/4 -
74-009, November 1974.  G/TBT/N/UGA /924 
 
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  6. Bellar, T. A., Lichtenberg, J. J., and Kroner, R. C., "The Occurrence of 
Organohalides in Chlorinated Drinking Water, " Journal American Water Works 
Association, Vol 66, 1974, p. 703.  
7. Symons, J. M., et al., "National Organics Reconnaissance Survey for 
Halog enated Organics, " Journal American Water Works Association, Vol 67, 
1975, p. 634.  
8. Bellar, T. A., and Lichtenberg, J. J., "Determining Volatile Organics at 
Microgram -per-Litre Levels by Gas Chromatography, " Journal American Water 
Works Association, Vol 66, 1974, p. 739.  
9. "The Analysis of Trihalomethanes in Finished Waters by Purge and Trap, " USEPA 
Environmental Monitoring and Support Laboratory, Cincinnati, OH, Sept. 9, 
1977.  
10. Bellar, T. A., and Lichtenberg, J. J., "Semiautomated Headspace Analysis of 
Drinking Waters and Industrial Waters for Purgeable Volatile Organic 
Compounds, " Symposium on Measurement of Organic Pollutants in Water and 
Waste Water, ASTM STP 686, ASTM, 1979, p. 108.  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  December 2018.  
Proposed date of entry  into force:  Not applicable.  
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: