Agriculture Ministry issues tightens regulations for GCC food exports

Companies exporting food to the GCC face new regulations imposed Wednesday by the Agriculture Ministry after the Kuwaiti government suspended on Tuesday its imports of a number of Egyptian products that did not meet the required health standards, Youm7 reported. The Agriculture Ministry had promised last month to issue new quality control measures for exported goods, acknowledging that the excessive use of pesticides in Egyptian farming has been a particularly thorny issue, after the UAE halted Egyptian pepper imports for that reason.