Wheat import guide allows poppy-containing wheat -Reuters

The government has reportedly issued the streamlined guide on wheat imports Supply Minister Ali Moselhy had promised, according to Reuters. The guide reportedly includes instructions to ports to accept wheat shipment containing poppy seeds that are not cultivated for opium. The French Embassy in Egypt had suggested that blocking a French wheat shipment to Egypt could have been over confusion of the type of poppy flower. Bloomberg reports that red poppies, unlike their pink relatives, cannot be cultivated for opium.