G/TBT/N/UGA/1906  
22 January 2024  
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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  
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  
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 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Flours, 
meals and pellets of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit fo r 
human consumption (HS code(s): 230120); Fish and fishery products (ICS code(s): 
67.120.30)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS DARS 
1838:2023, Fish meal as animal feed — Specification, First Edition.; (16 page(s), in 
English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for fish meal used in compounding animal feeds.  
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.  
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; Protection of animal or plant 
life or healt h; Quality requirements; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and 
facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. AOAC 952.13, Arsenic in food — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate  
2. CAC/RCP 54, Code of practice on good animal feeding  G/TBT/N/UGA/1906  
 
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  3. ARS 56, Pre-packaged foods - Labelling  
4. ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and 
calculation of crude protein content — Part 1: Kjeldahl method  
5. ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  
6. ISO 5985, Animal feeding st uffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
7. ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: 
Titrimetric method  
8. ISO 6491, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of phosphorus content — 
Spectrometric method  
9. ISO 64 92, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of fat content  
10. ISO 6495, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of water -soluble chlorides 
content  
11. ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moisture and other volatile 
matter content  
12. ISO 6497, Animal feedi ng stuffs — Sampling  
13. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium content — Part 1: Method using granite furnace atomic absorption 
spectrometry  
14. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of 
cadmium  content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
15. ISO 6579 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the detection, 
enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp  
16. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetabl es and derived products — Determination of lead 
content — Flameless Atomic Absorption Spectrometric Method  
17. ISO 13720, Meat and meat products — Enumeration of presumptive 
Pseudomonas species  
18. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the tot al content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High-
performance liquid chromatographic method  
19. ISO 16654, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Escherichia coli O157  
20. ISO 1 7375, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1  
21. BS EN 15763 Foodstuffs. Determination of trace elements. Determination of 
arsenic, cadmium, mercury and lead in foodstuffs by inductively coupled plasma 
mass spectrometry (ICPMS) after pressure di gestion  
22. BS EN 14084:2003 Foodstuffs. Determination of trace elements. Determination 
of lead, cadmium, zinc, copper and iron by atomic absorption spectrometry (AAS) 
after microwave digestion  
23. AOAC Official Method 941.04 Urea and Ammoniacal Nitrogen in Animal  Feed 
9. Proposed date of adoption:  To be determined  
Proposed date of entry into force:  To be determined  
10. Final date for comments:  60 days from notification  G/TBT/N/UGA/1906  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [X] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, 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  
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