AreaEgypt

Commodity GroupGrains

CommodityWheat

Date16/10/2019

Policy CategoryConsumption and marketing

Policy InstrumentGovernment market intervention

DescriptionIssued decree N°. 166 for 2019, which states that specifications of subsidized flour extraction 82 percent have been altered. Mill owners and managers who are licensed to produce wheat flour extraction 82 percent are to produce flour as per the following specifications: the moisture rate would not exceed 14 percent; ash content on dry matter basis would not exceed 0.1 percent; fibres would not exceed 0.4 percent; sand would not exceed 0.1 percent. The flour would be free of red shorts, as well as of soft and coarse bran; clean and free of insects in all its stages and free of foreign matter, and would have a natural colour and odour.