Al-Marsad newspaper: Nader Nour El-Din, advisor to the former Minister of Supply and Egyptian strategist, revealed the reason why the Egyptian authorities refused a wheat shipment coming from India.
He said, according to Russia Today: “One of the most important conditions for importing wheat is that the percentage of broken wheat should not exceed 3-5%, and the percentage of dirt and straw should not exceed 0.1%, and that it be free from fungi and toxic aflatoxin toxins, as well as free from weed seeds, especially the strange ones and not found in Egyptian and Arab lands.
He explained: “As for fossilized fungi, they are meant by ergott, which are fossilized fungi that are severely harmful to humans and retain their toxic properties after grinding and baking as they are not affected by heat, chemical, or even radiation treatments, and cause malignant tumors to humans and cyanosis of the limbs, especially the fingers and toes, and therefore Many European countries prevent the receipt of wheat if it contains even a small percentage of the fossilized ergot fungus, which prevails in countries with very cold winters, and Egypt and some Arab countries require that the percentage of ergot not exceed 0.05% of the total wheat shipment, otherwise the whole shipment will be rejected. .
He continued, “The Indian wheat shipment contains more than the permissible percentage of fungi, which takes the form of a solid wheat grain, but with a black color. The reason for the rejection may also be the presence of strange weed seeds or the presence of a high percentage of fungi and aflatoxin toxins, in addition to straw and dust due to the use of farmers.” The poor in India are primitive threshers to separate wheat from straw.