Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 09 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 08 August 2026

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for edible acid casein, edible rennet casein and edible caseinate intended for direct human consumption or further processing.

Products Covered: Other milk products (ICS code(s): 67.100.99)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 08 August 2026

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for edible acid casein, edible rennet casein and edible caseinate intended for direct human consumption or further processing.

Products Covered: Other milk products (ICS code(s): 67.100.99)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 08 August 2026

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for edible acid casein, edible rennet casein and edible caseinate intended for direct human consumption or further processing.

Products Covered: Other milk products (ICS code(s): 67.100.99)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 09 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 08 August 2026

This Draft East African Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for edible acid casein, edible rennet casein and edible caseinate intended for direct human consumption or further processing.

Products Covered: Other milk products (ICS code(s): 67.100.99)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 03 August 2026

This document specifies requirements for the development, qualification, and routine control of moist heat sterilization processes for medical devices, applicable to industrial sterilization applications.This document contains guidance intended to explain requirements set forth in the normative sections, so as to promote good practices related to moist heat sterilization processes specified herein.This document does not apply to the development, qualification, and routine control of processes for the inactivation of agents causing transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (e.g., scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease).This document does not specify occupational safety requirements related to the design and operation of moist heat sterilization facilities.

Products Covered: Medical devices sterilized by moist heat using saturated steam, steam or air-steam mixed gas, water spray, water immersion, etc. (HS code(s): 300590; 392329; 701790; 842129; 901831; 901839; 902131); (ICS code(s): 11.080.10)

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 June 2026

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is amending the Hazardous Materials Regulations (HMR) by streamlining the classification and approval process for transporting certain low-hazard fireworks, revising the criteria for small arms cartridges to include tracer ammunition as eligible for self- classification, designating the PHMSA portal as the sole method to submit applications for all explosives approvals, and authorizing voluntary termination of an explosive approval by the approval holder. Effective Date: This final rule is effective on 2 July 2026. The incorporation by reference of certain material listed in this rule was approved by the Director of the Federal Register as of 28 December 2020.    Voluntary Compliance Date: 2 June 2026.    Delayed Compliance Date: 31 August 2026. 91 Federal Register (FR) 32889, 2 June 2026; Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 107, 171, and 173:https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-02/html/2026-10962.htmhttps://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-06-02/pdf/2026-10962.pdf This final rule and the notice of proposed rulemaking notified as G/TBT/N/USA/2072 are identified by Docket Number PHMSA-2020-0103. The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/PHMSA-2020-0103/document and provides access to primary and supporting documents as well as comments received. Documents are also accessible from Regulations.gov by searching the Docket Number.  

Products Covered: Energetic materials; Fireworks (HS code(s): 360410); Bombs, grenades, torpedos, mines, missiles, cartridges and other ammunition and projectiles and parts thereof, incl. buckshot, shot and cartridge wads, n.e.s. (HS code(s): 9306); Explosion protection (ICS code(s): 13.230); Explosives. Pyrotechnics and fireworks (ICS code(s): 71.100.30)

Regulation Type: Addendum to Regular Notification

Distribution date: 03 June 2026

The draft amendments to the Rules for registration and examination of safety, quality and effectiveness of medical devices provides for the possibility of suspending the validity of the marketing authorization in the event that there is no valid report on the results of inspection in the marketing authorization application of a medical device in order to prevent the release into circulation of a poor quality medical product.

Products Covered: Cotton wool, gauze, bandages and similar articles (for example, bandages, Band-Aids, poultices), im pregnated or coated with pharmaceutical substances or packaged in forms or packages for retail sale, intended for use in medicine, surgery, dentistry or veterinary medicine (HS 3005); Devices and instruments used in medicine, surgery, dentistry or veterinary m edicine, including scintigraphic equipment, other electro-medical equipment and vision testers (HS 9018); Equipment based on the use of X-ray, alpha, beta or gamma radiation, intended or not intended for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary use, including X-ray or radiotherapy equipment, X-ray tubes and other X-ray generators, high-voltage generators, shields and control panels, screens, tables, chairs and similar products for examination or treatment (HS 9022); Medical, surgical, dental or veterinary furniture (for example, operating tables, examination tables, hospital beds with mechanical devices, dental chairs); barber chairs and similar chairs with devices for rotating and simultaneously for tilting and lifting; parts of the above-mentioned products (HS Code 9402).

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 02 August 2026

This draft regulation establishes Guidelines for the Implementation of the Halal Assurance System (HAS) for cosmetic products. The guidelines are intended to assist business operators, halal supervisors, halal auditors, halal product assurance inspectors, and other stakeholders in implementing the Halal Assurance System in accordance with Indonesia's Halal Product Assurance Law and Government Regulation No. 42 of 2024.The regulation provides guidance on the criteria for the Halal Assurance System applicable to cosmetic products and identifies critical halal control points throughout the production process to ensure the continuity of halal compliance. The guidelines aim to facilitate consistent implementation of halal requirements, support compliance with applicable regulations and standards, and ensure that cosmetic products meet halal requirements in accordance with Islamic principles.

Products Covered: Cosmetic product 

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 June 2026 | Final date for Comment: 02 August 2026

This Working Draft Uganda Standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for biochar. The standard applies to biochar produced from biomass through thermochemical conversion processes such as pyrolysis or gasification under limited oxygen conditions. This standard does not apply to charcoal used as fuel or biochar produced from hazardous or contaminated feedstock. Note: This Draft Uganda Standard was also notified to the TBT Committee.

Products Covered: Fertilisers (HS code(s): 31); Agriculture (ICS code(s): 65.080); Biochar

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 03 June 2026

Kazakhstan has notified in G/SPS/N/KAZ/172 (20 February 2024) a letter from the Veterinary Control and Supervision Committee of the Ministry of Agriculture on the introduction of temporary restrictions on the import of live poultry and hatching eggs, down and feathers, meat for import and transit through the territory of Kazakhstan from the territories of the municipalities of Varde and Vordinborg in Denmark of live poultry and hatching eggs, down and feathers, poultry meat and all types of poultry products that have not undergone heat treatment (at least 70 ° C), feed and feed additives for birds, hunting trophies that have not undergone taxidermic treatment (feathered game), used equipment for keeping, slaughtering and butchering birds.The notified measure was modified by the Letter of the Committee for Veterinary Control and Surveillance of the Ministry of Agriculture of Kazakhstan.

Products Covered: Live poultry and hatching eggs, fluff and feathers, poultry meat, and all types of poultry products that have not undergone proper heat treatment, feed and feed additives for birds, excluding feed additives of chemical and microbiological synthesis, hunting trophies and used equipment for keeping, slaughtering, and butchering birds 

Regulation Type: Addendum to Emergency Notification (SPS)