G/TBT/N/UGA/524  
 
22 October 2015  
(15-5570)  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 telephon e 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 applic able, otherwise national tariff heading. 
ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Smoked fish; Smoke 
flavoured fish; Smoked dried fish. Fish, dried, salted or in brine; smoked fish, whether or not cooked before or during the smoking process; flours, meals and pellets of fish, fit for human consumption. (HS: 0305). Fish and fishery products (ICS: 67.120.30) 
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS DEAS 
876:2015, Smoked Fish, Smoke-Flavoured and Smoke-Dried Fish – Specification (13 pages, 
in English) 
6. Description of content: This draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements and methods 
of sampling and test for smoked fish, smoke flavoured fish and smoke dried fish intended 
for human consumption. The standard covers all fish species.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Trade promotion; Quality requirements; Protection of human health or safety.; 
Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:  
1. AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food – Silver diethyldibocarbamate method 
2. AOAC 977.13, Histamine in sea food – Fluorometric method 
3. AOAC 972.23, Lead in fish – Atomic ab sorption spectrophotometric method 
4. AOAC 973.34, Cadmium in food – Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method 
5. AOAC 983.20, Mercury (methyl) in fish and shellfish – Gas chromatographic method  
6. CAC/GL 50-2004, General guideline on sampling 
7. CAC/RCP 52 -2003, Code of practice for fish and fishery products 
8. EAS 38, Labelling of pre-packaged foods – Requirements 
9. EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manuf acturing industry – Code of practice 
10. EAS 803, Nutrition labelling – Requirements 
11. EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims – Requirements 
12. ISO 4833-1, Microbiology of the food chain – Horizontal method for the enumeration 
of microorganisms – Part 1: Colony-count technique at 30 degrees C by the pour 
plate technique 
13. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the detection of Salmonella spp. G/TBT/N/UGA/524 
 
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  14. ISO 6888 (all parts), Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of coagulase-positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) 
15. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal method for 
the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli – Most probable number technique 
16. 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 
17. ISO/TS 21872 (all parts), Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs – Horizontal 
method for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp. 
18. ISO/TS 17919, Microbiology of the food ch ain – Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for 
the detection of food-borne pathogens – De tection of botulinum type A, B, E and F 
neurotoxin-producing clostridia 
19. ISO 17993:2002, Water quality-Determination of 15 polycyclic aromatic 
hydrocarbons (PAH) in water by HPLC with fluorescence detection after liquid – liquid 
extraction 
9. Proposed date of adoption: May 2016 
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: Nati onal enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available, of other body:  
https://member s.wto.org/crnattachments/2 015/TBT/UGA/15_4191_00_e.pdf