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Notifying Member: BURUNDI, KENYA, RWANDA, TANZANIA, UGANDA

If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):

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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 [ ], 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): - Other (HS code(s): 230990); Animal feeding stuffs (ICS code(s): 65.120)

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Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document: DEAS 1092:2022, Compounded rabbit feed — Specification, First Edition; (18 page(s), in English)

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Description of content: This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for compounded rabbit feed.

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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 animal or plant life or health

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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

5.    ISO 5985, Animal feeding stuffs — Determination of ash insoluble 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 feeding 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 aflatoxin 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 of calcium, sodium, phosphorous, magnesium, potassium, iron, zinc, copper, manganese, cobalt, molybdenum, arsenic, lead and cadmium by ICP-AES

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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