October 16, 2009
Egypt to release French wheat cargo in 2 days
Egypt's Central Administration for Plant Quarantine said Thursday (October 15) a detained cargo of 63,000 tonnes of French wheat had passed an inspection and would be released in two days.
"After its treatment we took a sample and the wheat is good. The sample abides by our procedures and the shipment will be released in two days," the head of the Central Administration of Plant Quarantine, Ali Soliman, told Dow Jones Newswires by telephone.
Soliman said Oct. 4 that the shipment, which arrived at Egypt's Safaga Port on Sept. 17, would be released in 10 days.
The shipment belongs to Egypt's state-owned wheat buyer GASC. It was seized for containing 44 poisonous and impure seeds a kilogramme. Egyptian standards only permit 20 poisonous seeds a kilogramme.
