  
  
G/TBT/N/BDI/238 , G/TBT/N/KEN/1257  
G/TBT/N/RWA/668 , G/TBT/N/TZA/778  
G/TBT/N/UGA/1591  
19 May 2022  
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Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  BURUNDI, KENYA, RWANDA, TANZANIA, 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@u nbs.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):  - Other 
(HS code(s): 230990); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)  
5. Title, number of page s and language(s) of the notified document:  DEAS 
1092:2022, Compounded rabbit feed — Specification, First Edition; (18 page(s), in 
English)  
6. Description of content:  This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, 
sampling and test methods for c ompounded rabbit feed.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and 
consumer protection; Protection of animal or plant life or health  
8. Relevant documents:   
1. ISO 6493, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of starch content — Polarimetric 
method  
2. IS0 5510, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of available lysine  
3. ISO 5983 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of nitrogen content and 
calculation of crude protein content — Part 1: Kjeldahl method  
4. ISO 5984, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude ash  G/TBT/N/BDI/238, G/TBT/N/KEN/1257, G/TBT/N/RWA/668, G/TBT/N/TZA/778, 
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  5. ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash ins oluble in hydrochloric 
acid 
6. ISO 6490 -1, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of calcium content — Part 1: 
Titrimetric method  
7. ISO 6491, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of phosphorus content — 
Spectrometric method  
8. ISO 6492, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of fat content  
9. ISO 6495, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of water -soluble chlorides 
content  
10. ISO 6496, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of moisture and other volatile 
matter content  
11. ISO 6497, Animal feeding stuffs — Sampling  
12. ISO 6865, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of crude fibre content — Method 
with intermediate filtration  
13. ISO 9831, Animal feeding stuffs, animal products, and faeces or urine — 
Determination of gross calorific value — Bomb calorimeter method  
14. ISO 13903, Animal fe eding stuffs — Determination of amino acids content  
15. ISO 14718, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of aflatoxin B1 content of 
mixed feeding stuffs — Method using high -performance liquid chromatography  
16. ISO 17375, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of a flatoxin B1  
17. 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 chromatographic method  
18. ISO 27085,Animal feeding stuff — Determination o f calcium, sodium, 
phosphorous, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, 
molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP -AES 
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  
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  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/UGA/22_3513_00_e.pdf  
 