G/SPS/N/UGA/176  
 
20 April 2022 
(22-3165) 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):  Finger millet grains, Millet (excl. grain sorghum, and seed for sowing) 
(HS Code(s): 100829); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS Code(s): 67.060)  
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 ARS 857:2022, Finger millet grains - Specification, 
First Edition . Lang uage(s):  English . Number of pages:  20 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/SPS/UGA/22_2927_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for finger millet grains of varieties (cultivars) grown from 
Eleusine  coracana  (L.) Gaertner intended for human consumption.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [  ] animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[ ] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other damage from pests.   
8. Is there a relevant international standard? If so, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Alimentarius Commissi on (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:   
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these a re available:   
1. Uganda Gazette  
2. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
3. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  G/SPS/N/UGA/176  
 
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  4. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins  B1 and B2 in corn and 
corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
5. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and 
feed 
6. ISO 520, Cereals and pulses — Determination of the mass of 1000 grains  
7. ISO 605 , Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
8. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content (Basic 
reference method)  
9. ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products — Determina tion of moisture content — Routine 
reference method  
10. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry  
11. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived pro ducts — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
12. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — 
Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
13. ISO 9648, Sorghum — Determination of tannin  
14. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High performance 
liquid chromatographic method  
15. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and a nimal 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  
16. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
17. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs  — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, 
magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, 
lead and cadmium by ICPAES  
18. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination crude fibre content — General 
method  
19. ISO 7251 , Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli  — Most probable number 
technique  
20. ISO 6579 - Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection of Salmonella spp. 
21. EAS 758:2012, Finger millet grains — Specification  
(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 facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 19 June 2022  
Agency or authority designated to handle comments: [  ] National Notification 
Authority, [  ] National Enquiry Point. Address, fax number and e -mail address (if 
avail able) 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  G/SPS/N/UGA/176  
 
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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