G/SPS/N/UGA/178  
 
20 April 2022  
(22-3167) 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):  Millet (HS Code(s): 10082); Cereals, pulses and derived products 
(ICS Code(s): 67.060)  
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 463:2022, Pearl millet grains - Specification, 
First Edition . Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  20 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/SPS/UGA/22_2929_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, methods 
of sampling and test for whole and decorticated pearl millet of the species 
Pennisetum  glaucum  (L.) R.Br. intended for food consumption. This standard also specifies 
grading requirements for pe arl millet grains. It does not apply to processed pearl millet.  
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:  
[X] Codex Alimentarius Commission (e.g.  title or serial number of Codex 
standard or related text) : CXS 169 -1989, Standard for Whole and Decorticated 
Pearl Millet Grains  
[ ] World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) (e.g.  Terrestrial or Aquatic 
Animal Health Code, chapter number) :  
[ ] International Plant Protection Convention (e.g.  ISPM number) :  
[ ] None  
Does this proposed regulation conform to the relevant international standard?  
[X] Yes   [  ] No 
If no, describe, whenever possible, how and why it deviates from the 
international standard:   G/SPS/N/UGA/178  
 
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  9. Other relevant documents and language(s) in which these are available:   
1. Uganda Gazette  
2. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
3. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
4. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn and 
corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
5. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and 
feed 
6. ISO 520, Cereals and pulses — Determination of the mass of 1000 grains  
7. ISO 605, Pulses — Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety — Test methods  
8. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content (Basic 
reference method)  
9. ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content — Routine 
reference method  
10. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry  
11. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium 
content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
12. ISO 6633,  Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — 
Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
13. ISO 9648, Sorghum — Determination of tannin  
14. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxi n B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High performance 
liquid chromatographic method  
15. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of yeasts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count techn ique in products 
with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
16. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
17. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium, sodium, phosphorus, 
magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, 
lead and cadmium by ICP -AES 
18. ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs - Determination of crude ash  
19. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the 
detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli  — Most probable number 
technique  
20. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp. 
21. EAS 284:2012, Pearl millet grains — Specification  
22. CODEX STAN 169 :1987 (Rev.1:1995), Whole and decorticated pearl millet grains  
23. CODEX STAN 228:2001 (Rev.1:2004), General methods of analysis for contaminants  
(available in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : June 2022  
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/178  
 
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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) : 19 June 2022  
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@unbs.go.ug  
Website: https://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: https://www.unbs.go.ug