G/TBT/N/UGA/590  
 
19 September 2016  
(16-4939) 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):  Frozen lobster tails. 
Tunas (of the genus Thunnus), skipjack or stripe -bellied bonito (Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) 
pelamis), excluding livers and roes : (HS: 03023), - Rock lobster and other sea crawfish 
(Palinurus spp., Panulirus spp., Jasus spp.) (HS: 030611), - Rock lobster and other sea 
crawfish (Palinurus spp., Panulir us spp., Jasus spp.) (HS: 030621), - Lobster 
(HS: 160530) .  Fish and fishery products (ICS: 67.120.30)  
5. Title, number of pages  and language(s)  of the notified document:  DUS DEAS 
897:2016, Frozen lobster tails - Specification.  (17 pages, in English)   
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda standard specifies requirements, methods of 
sampling and test for tails of all the species of the genera Panulirus, Thunnus and 
Peurulus.  
7. Objective and rationale , including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Trade facilitation; Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer protection ; Protection of 
human health or safety ; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. IS 3892:1975(R2005), Specification for Frozen Lobster Tails  
2. AOAC 952.13, Arsenic  in food - Silver diethyldibocarbamate method  
3. AOAC 972.23, Lead in fish - Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method  
4. AOAC 973.34, Cadmium in food - Atomic absorption spectrophotometric method  
5. AOAC 983.20, Mercury (methyl) in fish and shellfish - Gas chrom atographic method  
6. CAC/GL 50, General guidelines on sampling  
7. CODEX STAN 192, General standard for food additives  
8. EAS 38, Labelling of prepackaged foods - Specification  
9. EAS 803, Nutrition labelling - Requirements  
10. EAS 804, Claims on foods - Requirements  
11. EAS 8 05, Use of nutritional and health claims - Requirement  
12. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of coliforms - Colony -count technique  
13. ISO 4833, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizon tal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms - Colony -count technique at 30 degrees C  
14. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the G/TBT/N/UGA/590  
 
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  detection of Salmonella spp.  
15. ISO 7937, Microbiology of food and animal feeding st uffs - Horizontal method for the 
enumerat ion of Clostridium perfringens - Colony -count technique  
16. ISO 13720, Meat and meat products - Enumeration of Pseudomonas spp.  
17. ISO 21567, Microbiology of food and animal feeding - Horizontal method for the 
detection of  Shigella spp.  
18. ISO/TS 21872 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method 
for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp. - Part 1: Detection of 
Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholerae  
19. ISO/TS 21872 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method 
for the detection of potentially enteropathogenic Vibrio spp. - Part 2: Detection of 
species other than Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholerae  
20. ISO 11290 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding s tuffs - Horizontal method for 
the detection and enumeration of Listeria monocytogenes - Part 2: Enumeration 
method  
9. Proposed date of adoption: January 2017  
Proposed date of entry into force: Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for 
Trade, Indus try and Cooperatives.   
10. Final date for comments:  4 November 2016  
11. Texts available from : National enquiry point  [ X] or address, telephone and fax 
number s and e mail and website address es, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2016/TBT/UGA/16_3795_00_e.pdf