Distribution date: 03 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 02 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for skin applied mosquito repellents in form of lotions, creams, gels and ointments.

Products Covered: Mosquito repellent

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 02 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for skin applied mosquito repellents in form of sprays and roll-ons meant to be applied directly to the skin.

Products Covered: Mosquito repellents

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 02 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and methods of test for skin applied mosquito repellents prepared as wipes meant to be applied directly to the skin.

Products Covered: Mosquito repellents

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 02 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and methods of test for skin applied mosquito repellents in form of bathing soaps meant to be applied directly to the skin.

Products Covered: Mosquito repellents

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 12 May 2025

MAPA Ordinance 249, 25 November 2019, previously notified through G/TBT/N/BRA/949 – draft of a  technical regulation establishing the identity and quality standards for edible gelatin, hydrolyzed gelatin and collagen was adopted  by MAPA Ordinance 384, 25 August 2021.

Products Covered: 3503.00 - gelatin

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 06 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 01 November 2021

As set out in the Biosecurity Advice 2021-A04 (https://www.agriculture.gov.au/biosecurity/risk-analysis/memos), the Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment initiated an assessment in response to stakeholder requests for an alternative heat treatment for fish and fish products for use as pet food and stockfeed imported into Australia. This draft assessment uses infectious pancreatic necrosis virus (IPNV), the most thermo-chemical treatment-resistant aquatic animal virus, as the minimum standard for aquatic pathogen inactivation. The department has undertaken this assessment to determine if IPNV is inactivated by the proposed heat treatment. Based on the outcomes of the assessment, the department proposes that the following changes to import policy are made: · The current heat treatment of 100 °C for no less than 30 minutes for fish products containing salmonid material, be reduced to a moist heat treatment of at least 85 °C for at least 25 minutes, or at an equivalent time and temperature agreed to by the department; · The current heat treatment of 80 °C for no less than 20 minutes for fish products containing non-salmonid material be increased to a moist heat treatment of at least 85 °C for at least 25 minutes, or at an equivalent time and temperature agreed to by the department; · The current restrictions on the percentage of salmonid material contained in the fish products (no more than 2%) will no longer apply. The department invites comments on technical aspects of the proposed measures. The department is interested in your comments regarding these measures providing equivalent risk management outcomes when compared to the current measures. The department will carefully consider all submissions before finalising the assessment of existing policy. A further Animal Biosecurity Advice will be issued following the consultation period. The department invites you to comment on the draft review by 1 November 2021.

Products Covered: Fish and fish products for use as pet food and stockfeed

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 07 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 06 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard specifies the requirements, sampling and test methods for files and folders.

Products Covered: Files, Folders

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 07 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 06 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard provides guidelines for the design and execution of studies to evaluate the performance of mosquito repellents formulated and prepared for application directly to human skin. These guidelines apply to products in any formulation intended to be applied directly to human skin.

Products Covered: Mosquito repellents

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 08 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 31 October 2021

The purpose of this Notice of Consultation is to provide an opportunity to comment on the proposal to revise the listing for brimonidine or its salts, by adding a qualifier to the human and veterinary parts of the Prescription Drug List.

Products Covered: Prescription status of medicinal ingredients for human and veterinary use (ICS: 11.120.01; HS: 3004.90)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 13 September 2021 | Final date for Comment: 12 November 2021

This Draft Uganda Standard covers the determination of hardness in water by titration. This test method is applicable to waters that are clear in appearance and free of chemicals that will complex calcium or magnesium. The lower detection limit of this test method is approximately 2 to 5 mg/L as CaCO3; the upper limit can be extended to all concentrations by sample dilution. It is possible to differentiate between hardness due to calcium ions and that due to magnesium ions by this test method.

Products Covered: Water

Regulation Type: Regular notification