G/SPS/N/UGA/308  
23 January 2024  
(24-0484) 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):  Insects, fit for human consumption (HS code(s): 041010); Animal 
feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)  
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 1844: 2023, Dried insect products for 
compounded animal feeds — Specification, First Edition . Language(s):  English . Number 
of pages:  16 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/UGA/24_00643_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This African Standard specifies the requirements, sampling, and 
test methods for dried insect products as sources of protein for compounded animal feeds.  
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the TBT Committee.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X] food safety, [X]  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, identify the standard:  
[ ] Codex Ali mentarius 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 stand ard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
1. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
2. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  G/SPS/N/UGA/308  
 
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  3. CAC / RCP 1, General principles of food hygiene  
4. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coliforms — Colony -count technique  
5. ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration 
of microorganisms — Part 1: colony count at 30 ° C by the pour plate technique  
6. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content — 
General method  
7. ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and calculation 
of crude protein content — Part 1: Kjeldahl met hod 
8. ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  
9. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid  
10. ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: 
titrimetric method  
11. ISO 649 1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of phosphorus content — 
Spectrometric method  
12. ISO 6495, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of water -soluble chlorides content — 
Part 1: titrimetric method  
13. ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moistur e and other volatile matter 
content  
14. ISO 6497, Animal feeding stuffs — Sampling  
15. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of salmonella — Part 1: detection of Salmonella spp. 
16. ISO 11085, Cere als-based products and animal feeding stuffs — Determination of 
crude fat and total fat content by the randall extraction method  
17. ISO 16649 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of beta -glucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli — Part 2: colony -count 
technique at 44 degrees c using 5 -bromo4 -chloro -3-indolyl beta -d-glucuronide  
18. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — determination of aflatoxin b1, and the total content of 
aflatoxins b1, b2, g1 and g2 in cereals, nuts and deriv ed products — High-performance 
liquid chromatographic method  
19. ISO 17375, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1 ISO 27085, Animal 
feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, magnesium, 
potassium, iron, zinc, copper, mangane se, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, lead and 
cadmium by ICPAES  
20. Uganda Gazette  
(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) : 23 March 2024  
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 6123  
E-mail: info@u nbs.go.ug  
Website: https://www.unbs.go.ug  G/SPS/N/UGA/308  
 
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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