G/TBT/N/UGA/1520  
13 December 2021  
(21-9275) 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  
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 dif ferent 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):  Food 
snacks; Bread, pastry, cakes, biscuits and other bakers' wares, whether or not containing 
cocoa; communion wafers, empty cachets of a kind suitable for pharmaceutical use, 
sealing wafers, rice paper and similar products (excl. crispbread,  gingerbread and the 
like, sweet biscuits, waffles, wafers not mentioned, rusks, toasted bread and similar 
toasted products) (HS 190590); Cereals, pulses and derived products (ICS 67.060)  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  DUS 1558:2021, 
Food snacks — Specification, Second edition (12 page(s), in English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling 
and test methods for food snacks  
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. G/TBT/N/UGA/521  
2. US EAS 38, Labelling of pre -packaged foods - General requirements  
3. US 28 EAS 39, Code of practice for hygiene in the food and drink manufacturing 
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  4. US ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products -- Determination of moisture conte nt -
- Reference method  
5. US 45, General standard for food additives  
6. US EAS 803, Nutrition labelling ─ Requirements  
7. US EAS 804, Claims ─ General requirements  
8. US EAS 805, Use of nutrition and health claims ─ Requirements  
9. US ISO 660, Animal and vegetable fats and oils ― Determination of acid value 
and acidity  
10. US ISO 3960, Animal and vegetable fats and oils — Determination of peroxide 
value  
11. US ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content 
— General method  
12. US ISO 6579, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs ― Horizontal 
method for the detection of Salmonella spp.  
13. US ISO 7251, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs ― Horizontal 
method for the detection and enumeration of presumptive Escherichi a coli ― 
Most probable number technique  
14. US ISO 11085, Cereals, cereals -based products and animal feeding stuffs — 
Determination of crude fat and total fat content by the Randall extraction 
method  
15. US ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feedstuffs — 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  
16. US ISO 21527 -2, Microbiology of food and animal feedstuffs — Horizontal 
method for the enumeration of y easts and moulds — Part 2: Colony count 
technique in products with water activity less than or equal to 0.95  
17. US ISO 24333, Cereals, and cereal products — Sampling  
18. US 1558: 2015, Food grain snacks — Specification  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  March 2022  
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 
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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