Egypt's Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday it would form a committee to revise legislation governing the work of the agricultural quarantine authority, which has rattled world grain markets by turning away several wheat cargoes since 2016. Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, wreaked havoc in the global trade when quarantine officials in 2016 applied a policy on imports that barred any shipments of the grain containing even trace amounts of the common grain fungus ergot.
A prime ministerial decree ended the crisis in 2017 by enforcing a more common global standard, but this was challenged in court through several cases. The ministry said in Tuesday's statement the new committee would "revise, update and amend all the legislation governing the work of the agricultural quarantine and all the decisions linked to it."
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