Regulatory Updates

Distribution date: 05 July 2016

The notified amendment to the Emergency Mexican Official Standard seeks to establish the quality specifications to be met by petrochemicals used by the hydrocarbons industry and marketed in national territory, and applies to the following petrochemicals: ethane, propane, butane mixtures, and light and heavy naphtha that are marketed in national territory. ; ;

Products Covered: Petrochemicals (tariff headings 27.01 to 2901.10) ;

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 July 2016 | Final date for Comment: 02 September 2016

<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"></span><a name="_Toc443461092"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">This draft Uganda standard specifies the requirements and methods of sampling and test for solid antibacterial bathing bars. This standard applies to antibacterial bathing bars cakes or bar supplied in the form of cakes and produced from vegetable or animal oils or fats, fatty acids, or from a blend of all or part of these materials, with or without the addition of rosins or non-soapy surfactants.</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">The standard sets minimum requirements for performance and safety characteristics of antibacterial bathing bar.</span>

Products Covered: Antibacterial bathing bars

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 July 2016 | Final date for Comment: 02 September 2016

<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"></span><a name="_Toc443461092"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">This draft Uganda standard specifies the requirements and methods of sampling and test for solid antibacterial bathing bars. This standard applies to antibacterial bathing bars cakes or bar supplied in the form of cakes and produced from vegetable or animal oils or fats, fatty acids, or from a blend of all or part of these materials, with or without the addition of rosins or non-soapy surfactants.</span></a><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">The standard sets minimum requirements for performance and safety characteristics of antibacterial bathing bar.</span>

Products Covered: Antibacterial bathing bars

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 July 2016 | Final date for Comment: 02 September 2016

<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"></span><a name="_Toc443461092"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">This draft Uganda standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for bathing bars. This standard applies to bathing bars supplied in the form of bars/cakes and produced from vegetable or animal oils or fats, fatty acids, or from a blend of all or part of these materials, with or without the addition of rosins or non-soapy surfactants.&nbsp;</span></a><span style="line-height:103%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">The standard sets minimum requirements for performance and safety characteristics of bathing bar.</span>

Products Covered: Bathing bars

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 04 July 2016 | Final date for Comment: 02 September 2016

<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:'Verdana','sans-serif';font-size:9pt;"></span><a name="_Toc443461092"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color:#000000;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">This draft Uganda standard specifies requirements, sampling and test methods for bathing bars. This standard applies to bathing bars supplied in the form of bars/cakes and produced from vegetable or animal oils or fats, fatty acids, or from a blend of all or part of these materials, with or without the addition of rosins or non-soapy surfactants.&nbsp;</span></a><span style="line-height:103%;font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;font-size:9pt;">The standard sets minimum requirements for performance and safety characteristics of bathing bar.</span>

Products Covered: Bathing bars

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 July 2016

This Regulation reviews the default frequency of the reviews of Annex I and the list of imports of feed and food of non-animal origin which are subject to an increased level of official controls. The changes concern: the de-listing of dried grapes from Afghanistan and almonds from Australia; the listing of hazelnuts from Georgia.

Products Covered: HS Code(s): ex 07049090, ex 07081000, ex 07082000, 07096010, 07093000, ex 07094000, 07096010, ex 07096099, ex 07099990, ex 07102200, 07108051, ex 07108059, ex 07108095, 08022100, 08022200, 08025100, 08025200, 08055010, 08101000, ex 08109020, 08112031, ex 08112011, ex 08112019, 08131000, 0902, ex 11063090, 12024100, 12024200, 12074090, ex 12077000, ex 12119086, 15111090, 15119011, ex 15119019, 15119099, 20081110, 20081191, 20081196, 20081198, 20085061, ex 20089999, 3507

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 July 2016

This Regulation reviews the default frequency of the reviews of Annex I and the list of imports of feed and food of non-animal origin which are subject to an increased level of official controls. The changes concern: the de-listing of dried grapes from Afghanistan and almonds from Australia; the listing of hazelnuts from Georgia.

Products Covered: HS Code(s): ex 07049090, ex 07081000, ex 07082000, 07096010, 07093000, ex 07094000, 07096010, ex 07096099, ex 07099990, ex 07102200, 07108051, ex 07108059, ex 07108095, 08022100, 08022200, 08025100, 08025200, 08055010, 08101000, ex 08109020, 08112031, ex 08112011, ex 08112019, 08131000, 0902, ex 11063090, 12024100, 12024200, 12074090, ex 12077000, ex 12119086, 15111090, 15119011, ex 15119019, 15119099, 20081110, 20081191, 20081196, 20081198, 20085061, ex 20089999, 3507

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 July 2016 | Final date for Comment: 29 August 2016

The Food and Drug Administration has filed a petition, submitted by Keller and Heckman LLP on behalf of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., requesting that we amend our food additive regulations to no longer provide for the use of potassium perchlorate as an additive in closure-sealing gaskets for food containers because this use has been abandoned.

Products Covered: HS Code(s): 28; ICS Code(s): 67; Additive in closure-sealing gaskets for food containers

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 01 July 2016 | Final date for Comment: 29 August 2016

The Food and Drug Administration has filed a petition, submitted by Keller and Heckman LLP on behalf of the Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc., requesting that we amend our food additive regulations to no longer provide for the use of potassium perchlorate as an additive in closure-sealing gaskets for food containers because this use has been abandoned.

Products Covered: HS Code(s): 28; ICS Code(s): 67; Additive in closure-sealing gaskets for food containers

Regulation Type: Regular notification

Distribution date: 30 June 2016 | Final date for Comment: 29 August 2016

This proposal seeks to: a. Allow testing and Inspection activities records to be documented not only in paper, but also in electronic format.

Products Covered: Testing laboratories (foods, livestock products, pharmaceutical drugs, traditional Korean medicine, medical devices, cosmetics)

Regulation Type: Regular notification