G/TBT/N/UGA/1574  
4 April 2022  
(22-2664) Page: 1/3 
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):  Cereal 
flours (excl. wheat, meslin and maize) (HS code(s): 110290); Cereals, pulses and derived 
products (ICS code(s): 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS ARS 
469:2022, Millet flour — Specification, First Edition; (16 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requir ements, methods 
of sampling and test for millet flour obtained from whole or decorticated pearl millet from 
varieties Penicum maliaceum) or finger millet grown from Eleusine coracana (L.) 
Gaertner. or proso millet from (Panicum millaceum) for human consump tion. It does not 
apply to grits obtained from pearl millet.  
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; Quality requirements; 
Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 3310 - 1, Test sieves -technical requirements and testing – Part 1: Test sieves 
of metal wire cloth  
2. ISO 9648, Sorghum determination of tannin content  G/TBT/N/UGA/1574  
 
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  3. ISO 27085, Animal feeding stuffs – Determination of calcium, sodium, 
phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICPAES  
4. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products -- Determination of lead 
content -- Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method  
5. ISO 6561 -1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products -- Determination of cadmium 
content -- Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic abs orption spectrometry  
6. ISO 6561 -2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products -- Determination of cadmium 
content -- Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry  
7. ARS 463, Pearl millet grains — Specification  
8. ARS 857, Finger millet grains — Specifica tion 
9. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice  
10. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling  
11. AOAC Official Method 2001.04, Determination of Fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn 
and corn flakes — Liquid chromatography with immunoaffinity column cleanup  
12. CODEX Stan 192, General standard for food additives  
13. CODEX STAN 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food 
and feed  
14. ISO 711, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content (Basic 
reference method)  
15. ISO 712, Cereals and c ereal products — Determination of moisture content — 
Routine reference method  
16. ISO 1871, Food and feed products — General guidelines for the determination of 
nitrogen by the Kjeldahl method  
17. ISO 2171, Determination of ash content  
18. ISO 4833, Microbiology of fo od and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of microorganisms — Colony -count technique at 30 degrees 
C 
19. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination crude fibre content — 
General method  
20. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
21. ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: 
Titrimetric method  
22. ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the detection of Salmonella s pp. 
23. ISO 6888 -1, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird -Parker agar medium  
24. ISO 6888 -2, Microbiology  of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the enumeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 2: Technique using rabbit plasma fibrinogen agar 
medium  
25. ISO 6888 -3, Microbiology of food and ani mal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method 
for the numeration of coagulase -positive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus 
and other species) — Part 3: Detection and MPN technique for low numbers  
26. ISO 16649 -1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method of  the for the 
numeration of betaglucuronidase -positive Escherichia coli - Part 1; Colon - count 
technique at 44 degrees C using 5 -Bromo -4-Chloro -3-Indolyl Beta -D-Glucuronide  G/TBT/N/UGA/1574  
 
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  27. ISO 11085, Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs — 
Determination  of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction method  
28. ISO 16050, Foodstuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1, and the total content of 
aflatoxins B1, B2, G1 and G2 in cereals, nuts and derived products — High-
performance liquid chromatographi c method  
29. ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal 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  
30. ISO 24333, Cereals and cereal products — Sampling  
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; June 2022  
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 StandardsPlot 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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