G/SPS/N/UGA/309  
23 January 2024  
(24-0488) 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):  Flours, meals and pellets of fish or crustaceans, molluscs or other 
aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption (HS code(s): 230120); Fish and 
fishery p roducts (ICS code(s): 67.120.30)  
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 1838:2023, Fish meal as animal feed — 
Specification, First Edition . Language(s):  English . Number of pages:  16 
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2024/SPS/UGA/24_00645_00_e.pdf  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for fish meal used in compounding animal fe eds. 
Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the TBT Committee.  
7. Objective and rationale: [X]  food safety, [X]  animal health, [  ] plant protection, 
[X] protect humans from animal/plant pest or disease, [  ] protect territory from 
other dama ge 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 st andard?  
[ ] 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:   
1. AOAC  952.13, Arsenic in food — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate  
2. CAC/RCP 54, Code of practice on good animal feeding  
3. ARS 56, Pre -packaged foods - Labelling  G/SPS/N/UGA/309  
 
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  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 stuffs — Determination of ash ins oluble 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 6492, 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 feeding 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, vegetables 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 total content of 
aflatoxins B1, B 2, 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 17375, 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 digestion  
22. BS EN 14084:2003 Foods tuffs. 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  
24. Uganda Gazette  
(availabl e in English)  
10. Proposed date of adoption (dd/mm/yy) : To be determined.  
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) : To be determined.  
[X] Trade facilitating measure   
12. Final date for comments: [X]  Sixty days from the date of circulation of the 
notification and/or (dd/mm/yy) : 23 March 2024  
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  G/SPS/N/UGA/309  
 
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  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