G/TBT/N/UGA/1014  
 
8 January 2019  
(19-0091) Page: 1/4 
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 [X], 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): Packaged 
flavoured drinking water ; Waters, including mineral waters and aerated waters, 
containing added sugar or other sweetening matter or f lavoured (HS 220210). Drinking 
water (ICS 13.060.20).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: Packaged 
flavoured drinking water - Specification, First Edition. (25 page(s), in English)   
6. Description of content: This Draft Ug anda Standard specifies requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for ready to drink flavoured drinking water.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable: Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of human health or safety; Quality requirements; 
Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. EAS 13, Packaged natural mineral waters - Specification  
2. EAS 153, Packaged drinking water - Specification  
3. EAS 803, Nutrition labelling - Requirements  
4. EAS 804, Claims on food - General requirements  
5. EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims - Requirements  
6. EAS 38, Labelling of prepackaged foods - Specification  
7. EAS 3 9, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry - Code of practice  
ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coliforms - Colony -count technique  
8. ISO 5961, Water quality - Determination of cad mium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  G/TBT/N/UGA/1014  
 
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  9. ISO 6222, Water quality - Enumeration of culturable microorganisms - Colony 
count by inoculation in nutrient agar culture media  
10. ISO 6332, Water quality - Determination of iron - Spectrometric method using 
1,10-phenant hroline   
11. ISO 6333, Water quality - Determination of manganese - Formaldoxime 
spectrometric method  
12. ISO 6461 -2, Water quality - Detection ad enumeration of the spores of sulphite -
reducing anaerobes (clostridia) - Part 2: Method by membrane filtration  
13. ISO 670 3-1, Water quality - Determination of cyanide: total cyanide  
14. ISO 6777, Water quality - Determination of nitrite - Molecular absorption 
spectrometric method  
15. ISO 19250, Water quality - Determination of salmonella  
16. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal f eeding stuffs - Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulass -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) - Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
17. ISO 7027 -1, Water quality - Determination of turbidity -Part 1: Quantitat ive 
methods  
18. ISO 7393 -1, Water quality - Determination of free chlorine and total chlorine - 
Part 1: Titrimetric method using N,N -diethyl -1,4phenylenediamine  
19. ISO 7393 -2, Water quality - Determination of free chlorine and total chlorine - 
Part 2: Colorimetri c method using N,N -dialkyl -1,4phenylenediamine, for routine 
control purposes  
20. ISO 7393 -3, Water quality - Determination of free chlorine and total chlorine - 
Part 3: Iodometric titration method for the determination of total chlorine  
21. ISO 7887, Water quality  - Examination and determination of colour  
22. ISO 7890 -3, Water quality - Determination of nitrate - Part 3: Spectrometric 
method using sulfosalicylic acid  
23. ISO 7899 -2, Water quality - Detection and enumeration of intestinal enterococci 
- Part 2: Membrane filt ration method  
24. ISO 7980, Water quality - Determination of calcium and magnesium - Atomic 
absorption spectrometric method  
25. ISO 8165 -1, Water quality - Determination of selected monovalent phenols – 
Part 1: Gaschromatographic  method after enrichment by extraction  
26. ISO 8165 -2, Water quality - Determination of selected monovalent phenols – 
Part 2: Method by derivatization and gas chromatography  
27. ISO 8288, Water quality - Determination of cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium 
and lead - Flame atomic absorption spectrometric methods  
28. ISO 9174, Water quality - Determination of chromium - Atomic absorption 
spectrometric methods  
29. ISO 9297, Water quality - Determination of chloride - Silver nitrate titration with 
chromate indicator (Mohr 's method)  
30. ISO 9308 -12014/Amd1:2016, Water quality - Enumeration of Escherichia coli and 
coliform bacteria - Part 1: Membrane filtration method for waters with low 
bacterial background flora  
31. ISO 9377 -2, Water quality - Determination of hydrocarbon oil index - Part 2: 
Method using solvent extraction and gas chromatography  
32. ISO 9696, Water quality - Gross alpha activity - Test method using thick source  G/TBT/N/UGA/1014  
 
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  33. ISO 9697, Water quality - Gross beta activity in non -saline water - Test method 
using thick source  
34. ISO 9964 -1, Water quality - Determination of sodium and potassium – 
Part 1: Determination of sodium by atomic absorption spectrometry  
35. ISO 9964 -2, Water quality - Determination of sodium and potassium – 
Part 2: Determination of potassium by atomic absorption spectromet ry 
36. ISO 10304, Water quality - Determination of dissolved anions by liquid 
chromatography of ions  
37. ISO 10359, Water quality - Determination of fluoride  
38. ISO 10523, Water quality - Determination of pH  
39. ISO 10530, Water quality - Determination of dissolved sulfi de - Photometric 
method using methylene blue  
40. ISO 10566, Water quality - Determination of aluminium - Spectrometric method 
using pyrocatechol violet  
41. ISO 11423, Water quality - Determination of benzene and some derivatives  
42. ISO 11732, Water quality - Determin ation of ammonium nitrogen - Method by 
flow analysis (CFA and FIA) and spectrometric detection  
43. ISO 11885, Water quality - Determination of selected elements by inductively 
coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP -OES) 
44. ISO 12846, Water quality - Determination of mercury - Method using atomic 
absorption spectrometry (AAS) with and without enrichment  
45. ISO 15061, Water quality - Determination of dissolved bromate - Method by liquid 
chromatography of ions  
46. ISO 15089, Water quality - Guidelines for selecti ve immunoassays for the 
determination of plant treatment and pesticide agents  
47. ISO 16265, Water quality - Determination of the methylene blue active 
substances (MBAS) index - Method using continuous flow analysis (CFA)  
48. ISO 16266, Water quality - Detection a nd enumeration of Pseudomonas 
aeruginosa - Method by membrane filtration biology of food and animal feeding 
stuffs - Horizontal method for the detection of Shigella spp.  
49. ISO 14402, Water quality - Determination of phenol index by flow analysis (FIA 
and CFA ) 
50. ISO/TS 21872 -1, Microbiology of food and animal stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the detection of potentially enteropathogenic vibrio spp. - Part 1: Detection of 
vibrio parahaemolyticus and vibrio cholera  
51. ISO 9963 -2, Water quality - Determination of alkali nity - Part 2: Determination 
of carbonate alkalinity  
52. ISO 9965, Water quality - Determination of selenium - Atomic absorption 
spectrometric method (hydride technique)  
53. ISO 11969, Water quality - Determination of arsenic - Atomic absorption 
spectrometric method (hydride technique)  
54. ISO 13877, Soil quality - Determination of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons - 
Method using high -performance liquid chromatography  
55. ISO 15553 Water quality - Isolation and identification of Cryptosporidium oocysts 
and Giardia cyst s from water  
56. ASTM D 1246 -55, Standard Test Method for Bromide Ion in Water  
57. ASTM D 1976 -12, Standard Test Method for Elements in Water by Inductively -
Coupled Argon Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy  G/TBT/N/UGA/1014  
 
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  58. ASTM D 4128 -06, Standard Guide for Identification and Qua ntitation of Organic 
Compounds in Water by Combined Gas Chromatography and Electron Impact 
Mass Spectrometry  
59. ASTM D 4129 -05, Standard Test Method for Total and Organic Carbon in Water 
by High Temperature Oxidation and by Coulometric Detection  
60. ASTM D 5907, Standard test methods for filterable matter (total dissolved solids) 
and non -filterable matter (total suspended solids) in water  
61. ASTM D5907 -13, Standard test methods for filterable matter (total dissolved 
solids) and non -filterable matter (total suspended solids) in water  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2020  
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 addresses, if available, of other body:   
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