Egypt approves sieving of Romanian wheat cargo.

Egyptian prosecutors on Sunday said they had approved a decision to sieve a Romanian wheat shipment which had been rejected by the agriculture quarantine authority for containing poppy seeds. The sieving will separate the seeds from the wheat. A French wheat shipment which had also been found to contain poppy seeds is still under investigation. Wheat imports were temporarily disrupted last year when traders boycotted Egyptian tenders in protest over a zero-tolerance policy towards ergot, a common grain fungus, that the country had briefly introduced. There are concerns that a court decision in July could restart the row as it returns power to the quarantine authority that leads the zero-tolerance policy campaign. The agriculture minister said this month that the poppy seed variety found in the cargoes from France and Romania was not very dangerous