G/TBT/N/UGA/1009  
 
17 December 2018  
(18-7983) 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): 
Dried  meat; Meat and edible meat offal, salted, in brine, dried or smoked; edible flours 
and meals of meat or meat  offal. (HS 0210). Meat and meat products (ICS 67.120.10).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS 1930: 
2018, Dried meat - Specification, First Edition (12 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: This Draft Ugand a standard specifies the requirements, 
methods of test and sampling for dried meat.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer prote ction; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. US 45, General standard for food additives (6th Edition)  
2. US 168, Edible oils and fats - Specification (2nd Edition)  
3. US 737, Production of packaged meat products (processed) - Hygienic 
requirements  
4. US 734, Design and operation of abattoirs and slaughterhouses - Requirements  
5. US 738, General standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed (5th 
Edition)  
6. US CAC/MRL 2, Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) and Risk Management 
Recommendations (RMRs) for residues of veterinary drugs in foods  
7. US CAC/RCP 42, (Revised in 2014), Code of hygienic practice for spices and dried 
aromatic herbs (Second edition  
8. US CAC/GL 50, G eneral guidelines on sampling  
9. US CAC/RCP 58, Codex code of hygienic practice for meat  G/TBT/N/UGA/1009  
 
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  10. US EAS 35, Fortified food grade salt - Specification  
11. US EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods - General requirements  
12. US ISO 936, Meat and meat products - Determination of total ash  
13. ISO 937, Meat and meat products: Determination of nitrogen content  
14. US ISO 1442, Meat and meat products - Determination of moisture content 
(Reference method)  
15. ISO 1443, Meat and meat products, Determination of total fat content  
16. US ISO 6579, Mic robiology of food and animal feeds - Horizontal method for 
detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella, Enumeration by a 
miniaturized most probable number technique  
17. US ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeds - Horizontal method for 
enumer ation of Coagulase - positive staphylococci. (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species), Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
18. US ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeds - Horizontal method for 
detection, enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli - Most probable number 
technique  
19. US ISO 11290 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal 
method for the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes -- Part 2: 
Enumeration method  
20. US ISO 21527 -1, Microbiology of food and anim al 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  
21. KS 2723:2016, Dried meat - Specification  
22. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) test and Enzyme Linke d Immuno Sorbent Assay 
(ELISA) methods  
23. AOAC Official Method 971.21 Mercury in Food Flameless Atomic Absorption 
Spectrophotometric Method First Action 1971 Final Action 1976  
9. Proposed date of adoption: March 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 address es, if available, of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/UGA/18_6466_00_e.pdf