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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:

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Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [ ], 5.6.2 [X], 5.7.1 [ ], 3.2 [ ], 7.2 [ ], other:

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Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable): Jams, jellies, marmalades, purées or pastes of fruit, obtained by cooking, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter (excl. citrus fruit and homogenised preparations of subheading 2007.10) (HS code(s): 200799); Fruits and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.080.10)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS DARS 179:2024, Jams, jellies and marmalades — Specification, First edition

Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.; (18 page(s), in English)

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Description of content: This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for jams, jellies and marmalades intended for direct human consumption. This draft standard does not apply to:

a) products when indicated as being intended for further processing such as those intended for use in the manufacture of fine bakery wares, pastries or biscuits;

b) products which are clearly intended or labelled as intended for special dietary uses;

c) reduced sugar products or those with a very low sugar content; and

d) products where the foodstuffs with sweetening properties have been replaced wholly or partially by food additive sweeteners.

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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; Harmonization; Reducing trade barriers and facilitating trade

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Relevant documents:

1. CAC/GL 21 – 1997, Principles for the Establishment and Application of Microbiology in Foods

2. CAC/GL 23-1997, Guidelines for Use of Nutrition and Health Claims (Amended 2013)

3. CXS 1, General standard for Labelling of pre-packaged Foods

4. CXS 192, General standard for food additives

5. CXS 234, Recommended Method of Analysis and Sampling

6. ISO 2173, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of soluble solids — Refractometric method

7. ISO 2447, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of tin

8. ISO 4832, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of coliforms — Colony-count technique

9. ISO 4833-1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of microorganisms — Part 1: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the pour plate technique

10. ISO 4833-2, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of microorganisms — Part 2: Colony count at 30 degrees C by the surface plating technique

11. ISO 6579-1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal methods for detection, enumeration and serotyping of Salmonella — Part 1: Detection of Salmonella spp.

12. ISO 6633, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of lead content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method

13. ISO 6634, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of arsenic content — Silver diethyldithiocarbamate spectrophotometric method

14. ISO 6636-2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of zinc content -- Part 2: Atomic absorption spectrometric method

15. ISO 16649-2, Microbiology of food and animal feeding stuffs — Horizontal method for the enumeration of beta-glucuronidase-positive Esherichia coli — Part 2: Colony-count technique at 44 degrees C using 5-bromo-4-chloro-3-indolyl beta-D-glucuronide

16. 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

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Proposed date of adoption: To be determined

Proposed date of entry into force: To be determined

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Final date for comments: 60 days from notification

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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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