G/TBT/N/UGA/599  
 
9 January 2017  
(17-0115) 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):  Wheat grains.  
Wheat and meslin. (HS 1001)  
Cereals, pulses and  derived products (ICS 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages  and language(s)  of the notified document:  DUS DEAS 
51:2016, Wheat grains - Specification. (12 pages, in English).  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda standard specifies requirements and m ethods 
of sampling and test for wheat grains of varieties (cultivars) grown from common wheat 
(Triticum aestivum L.) intended for human consumption . 
7. Objective and rationale , including the nature of urgent problems where applicable: 
Trade pr omotion; Quality requirements ; Protection of Human health or Safety ; Prevention 
of deceptive practices and consumer protection  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. G/TBT/N/UGA/399  
2. EAS 51:2013, Wheat grains  - Specification  
3. EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods - Requirements  
4. EAS 39, Hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing industry - Code of practice  
5. ISO 605, Pulses - Determination of impurities, size, foreign odours, insects, and 
species and variety - Test methods  
6. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products - Determination of moistu re content (Basic 
reference method)  
7. ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products - Determination of moisture content - 
Routine reference method  
8. ISO 3093, Wheat, rye and their flours, durum wheat and durum wheat semolina - 
Determination of the falling number accord ing to Hagberg -Perten  
9. ISO 5223, Test sieves for cereals ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal 
feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
10. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the detection of Salmonella spp.  
11. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and G/TBT/N/UGA/599  
 
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  other species) - Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
12. ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizontal method for 
the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichia coli - Most probable 
number technique  
13. ISO 7970, Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) - Specification  
14. ISO 7971 -1, Cereals - Determination of bulk density, called "mass per hectolitre" - 
Part 1: Reference method  
15. ISO 7971 -3, Cereals - Determination of bulk density, called "mass per hectolitre" - 
Part 2: Routine method  
16. ISO 11050, Wheat flour and durum wheat semolina - Determination o f impurities 
of animal origin  
17. ISO 15141 -1, Foodstuffs -- Determination of ochratoxin A in cereals and cereal 
products -- Part 1: High performance liquid chromatographic method with silica gel 
clean up  
18. ISO 15141 -2, Foodstuffs -- Determination of ochratoxin A in cereals and cereal 
products -- Part 2: High performance liquid chromatographic method with 
bicarbonate clean up  
19. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs - Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived pr oducts - High 
performance liquid chromatographic method  
20. ISO 20483, Cereals and pulses - Determination of the nitrogen content and 
calculation of the crude protein content - Kjeldahl method  
21. ISO 21527, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs - Horizon tal method for 
the enumeration of yeasts and moulds - Part 2: Colony count technique in 
products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
22. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products - Sampling  
23. ISO 24557, Pulses - Determination of moisture content - Air-oven method   
9. Proposed date of adoption:  June 2017.  
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 
number s and e mail and website address es, if available , of other body:   
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2017/ TBT/UGA/17_0060_00_e.pdf