G/SPS/N/UGA /59 
 
8 January 2019  
(19-0082) Page: 1/4 
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): Packaged flavoured drinking water  
4. Regions or countries likely to be affected, to t he extent relevant or practicable : 
[X] All trading partners  
[ ] Specific regions or countries:  
5. Title of the notified document: DUS DEAS 941:2018, Packaged flavoured drinking 
water - Specification, First Edition . Language(s): English.  Number of pages: 25 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2019/SPS/UGA/19_0146_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content: This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requi rements, methods 
of sampling and test for ready to drink flavoured drinking water.  
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 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 standard:  
9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:  
 EAS 13, Packaged natural mineral waters - Specification  
 EAS 153, Packaged drinking water - Specification  
 EAS 803, Nutrition labelling - Requirements  
 EAS 804, Claims on food - General requirements  G/SPS/N/UGA/59  
 
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   EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims - Requirements  
 EAS 38, Labelling of prepackaged foods - Specification  
 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  
 ISO 5961, Water quality - Determination of cad mium by atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
 ISO 6222, Water quality - Enumeration of culturable microorganisms - Colony count 
by inoculation in nutrient agar culture media  
 ISO 6332, Water quality - Determination of iron - Spectrometric method using 1,10 -
phenant hroline  
 ISO 6333, Water quality - Determination of manganese - Formaldoxime spectrometric 
method  
 ISO 6461 -2, Water quality - Detection ad enumeration of the spores of sulphite -
reducing anaerobes (clostridia) - Part 2: Method by membrane filtration  
 ISO 6703 -1, Water quality - Determination of cyanide: total cyanide  
 ISO 6777, Water quality - Determination of nitrite - Molecular absorption 
spectrometric method  
 ISO 19250, Water quality - Determination of salmonella  
 ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal fe eding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coagulass -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and 
other species) - Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
 ISO 7027 -1, Water quality - Determination of turbidity - Part 1: Quantitative methods  
 ISO 7393 -1, Water quality - Determination of free chlorine and total chlorine - Part 
1: Titrimetric method using N,N -diethyl -1,4phenylenediamine  
 ISO 7393 -2, Water quality - Determination of free chlorine and total chlorine – Part 2: 
Colorimetric method using N,N -dialkyl -1,4phenylenediamine, for routine control 
purposes  
 ISO 7393 -3, Water quality - Determination of free chlorine and total chlorine – Part 3: 
Iodometric titration method for the determination of total chlorine  
 ISO 7887, Water quality - Examination and determination of colour  
 ISO 7890 -3, Water quality - Determination of nitrate - Part 3: Spectrometric method 
using sulfosalicylic acid  
 ISO 7899 -2, Water quality - Detection and enumeration of intestinal enterococci -  
Part 2:  Membrane filtration method  
 ISO 7980, Water quality - Determination of calcium and magnesium - Atomic 
absorption spectrometric method  
 ISO 8165 -1, Water quality - Determination of selected monovalent phenols - Part 1: 
Gaschromatographic method after enrichm ent by extraction  
 ISO 8165 -2, Water quality - Determination of selected monovalent phenols - Part 2: 
Method by derivatization and gas chromatography  
 ISO 8288, Water quality - Determination of cobalt, nickel, copper, zinc, cadmium and 
lead - Flame atomic ab sorption spectrometric methods  
 ISO 9174, Water quality - Determination of chromium - Atomic absorption 
spectrometric methods  
 ISO 9297, Water quality - Determination of chloride - Silver nitrate titration with 
chromate indicator (Mohr's method)  
 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  
 ISO 9377 -2, Water quality - Determination of hydrocarbon oil index - Part 2: Method 
using solvent extraction and gas chromatography  
 ISO 9696, Water quality - Gross alpha activity - Test method using thick source  
 ISO 9697, Water quality - Gross beta activity in non -saline water - Test method using 
thick source  
 ISO 9964 -1, Water quality - Deter mination of sodium and potassium - Part 1: 
Determination of sodium by atomic absorption spectrometry  
 ISO 9964 -2, Water quality - Determination of sodium and potassium - Part 2: 
Determination of potassium by atomic absorption spectrometry  
 ISO 10304, Water q uality - Determination of dissolved anions by liquid 
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   ISO 10359, Water quality - Determination of fluoride  
 ISO 10523, Water quality - Determination of pH  
 ISO 10530, Water quality - Determination of dissolved sulfide  - Photometric method 
using methylene blue  
 ISO 10566, Water quality - Determination of aluminium - Spectrometric method using 
pyrocatechol violet  
 ISO 11423, Water quality - Determination of benzene and some derivatives  
 ISO 11732, Water quality - Determinat ion of ammonium nitrogen - Method by flow 
analysis (CFA and FIA) and spectrometric detection  
 ISO 11885, Water quality - Determination of selected elements by inductively coupled 
plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP -OES) 
 ISO 12846, Water quality - Determination of mercury - Method using atomic 
absorption spectrometry (AAS) with and without enrichment  
 ISO 15061, Water quality - Determination of dissolved bromate - Method by liquid 
chromatography of ions  
 ISO 15089, Water quality - Guidelines for selective  immunoassays for the 
determination of plant treatment and pesticide agents  
 ISO 16265, Water quality - Determination of the methylene blue active substances 
(MBAS) index - Method using continuous flow analysis (CFA)  
 ISO 16266, Water quality - Detection and  enumeration of Pseudomonas aeruginosa  - 
Method by membrane filtration  
 ISO 21567, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the 
detection of Shigella  spp. 
 ISO 14402, Water quality - Determination of phenol index by flow analysi s (FIA and 
CFA) 
 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  
 ISO 9963 -2, Water quality - Determina tion of alkalinity - Part 2: Determination of 
carbonate alkalinity  
 ISO 9965, Water quality - Determination of selenium - Atomic absorption 
spectrometric method (hydride technique)  
 ISO 11969, Water quality - Determination of arsenic - Atomic absorption 
spectrometric method (hydride technique)  
 ISO 13877, Soil quality - Determination of polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons - 
Method using high -performance liquid chromatography  
 ISO 15553 Water quality - Isolation and identification of Cryptosporidium oocysts and 
Giardia cysts from water  
 ASTM D 1246 -55, Standard Test Method for Bromide Ion in Water  
 ASTM D 1976 -12, Standard Test Method for Elements in Water by Inductively -Coupled 
Argon Plasma Atomic Emission Spectroscopy  
 ASTM D 4128 -06, Standard Guide for Identificati on and Quantitation of Organic 
Compounds in Water by Combined Gas Chromatography and Electron Impact Mass 
Spectrometry  
 ASTM D 4129 -05, Standard Test Method for Total and Organic Carbon in Water by 
High Temperature Oxidation and by Coulometric Detection  
 ASTM D 5907, Standard test methods for filterable matter (total dissolved solids) and 
non-filterable matter (total suspended solids) in water  
 ASTM D5907 -13, Standard test methods for filterable matter (total dissolved solids) 
and non -filterable matter (tot al suspended solids) in water  
 Uganda Gazette   
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : June 2020  
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) : Upon declaration as mandatory by the Minister for Trade, 
Industry and Cooperatives.  
[X] Trade facilitating measure  G/SPS/N/UGA/59  
 
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  12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 9 March 2019  
Agency or au thority 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@unbs.go.ug  
Website: http://www.unbs.go.ug  
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: http://www.unbs.go.ug