The Agriculture Ministry has issued a set of new regulations on grape exports to India, Al Masry Al Youm reports. The regulations include requiring cargoes to be stored at 0°C for 10 days prior to shipping and throughout the shipping process, submitting samples from the shipment for testing at the Agricultural Research Center, and including the testing certificate with the shipments. The ministry has been imposing more stringent regulations on exports after several countries moved to ban imports of Egyptian agricultural products due to high levels of residual pesticides and suspected Hepatitis A contaminations.

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