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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): Dried vegetables and mixtures of vegetables, whole, cut, sliced, broken or in powder, but not further prepared (excl. onions, mushrooms and truffles, not mixed) (HS code(s): 071290); Vegetables and derived products (ICS code(s): 67.080.20); Dried herbs

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DUS DARS 2113: 2024, Dried vegetables and herbs for food use — Specification, First edition

Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the SPS Committee.; (20 page(s), in English)

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Description of content: This Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements and methods of sampling and test for dried vegetables and herbs for food use, offered for direct consumption or further processing, including for catering purposes or for repackaging, if required. This standard does not apply to vegetables powder/flour and herbs for which specific standards have been declared.

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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. ARS 53, General principles of food hygiene — Code of practice

2. ARS 56, Prepackaged foods — Labelling

3. CXG 2, Nutritional labelling

4. CXS 192, General standard for food additives

5. ARS 471, Food grade salt — Specification

6. CXS 193, Codex general standard for contaminants and toxins in food and feed

7. ISO 712, Cereals and cereal products — Determination of moisture content — Reference method

8. ISO 763, Fruit and vegetable products — Determination of ash insoluble in hydrochloric acid

9. ISO 4833 (all parts), Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of microorganisms

10. ISO 5498, Agricultural food products — Determination of crude fibre content — General method

11. ISO 6561-1, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium content — Part 1: Method using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry

12. ISO 6561-2, Fruits, vegetables and derived products — Determination of cadmium content — Part 2: Method using flame atomic absorption spectrometry

13. ISO 6633, Fruit and vegetables products — Determination of lead content — Flameless atomic absorption spectrometric method

14. 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

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

16. ISO 6888-1, Microbiology of the food chain — Horizontal method for the enumeration of coagulasepositive staphylococci (Staphylococcus aureus and other species) — Part 1: Technique using Baird- Parker agar medium

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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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