G/TBT/N/UGA/858  
 
28 June 2018  
(18-4104) 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): Vegetable 
and nut spread; Jams, fruit jellies, marmalades, fruit or nut purée and fruit or nut pastes, 
obtained by  cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter. 
(HS 2007). Vegetables and derived products (ICS 67.080.20).  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS 1953: 2018, 
Vegetable and nut spread — Specific ation, First Edition (12 page(s), in English)    
6. Description of content: This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements and methods 
of sampling and test of vegetable and nut spread for human consumption.  
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; Reduci ng trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. A-A-20328B Nut butters and nut spreads  
2. EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods  
3. EAS 39, Code of practice for food and drink manufacturing industry  
4. US EAS 803, Nutrition labelling─ Requirements  
5. US EAS 804, Claims─ General Requirements  
6. US EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims─ Requirements  
7. US ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
8. US ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherich ia coli — Most probable 
number technique  
9. US ISO 21527, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method G/TBT/N/UGA/858  
 
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  for the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
10. US 45, Food additives and contaminants  
11. US ISO 5555, Animal and vegetable fats and oils – Sampling  
12. US ISO 3960, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of peroxide 
value — Iodometric (visual) endpoint determination  
13. US ISO 4833 -1, Microbiology  of the food chain -- Horizontal method for the 
enumeration of microorganisms -- Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the 
pour plate technique  
14. US ISO 12193, Animal and vegetable fats and oils -- Determination of lead by 
direct graphite furnace atomic a bsorption spectroscopy  
15. US ISO 2590, General method for the determination of arsenic -- Silver 
diethyldithiocarbamate photometric method  
9. Proposed date of adoption: December 2018  
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:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/TBT/UGA/18_3342_00_e.pdf