Someone did _NOT_ get the bloody memo: The Agriculture Ministry has formed a committee to investigate whether ergot fungus in imported wheat poses a risk to domestic crops, according to a statement from the ministry on Sunday, Bloomberg reported. Despite claiming that Egypt has not imported “a single grain of wheat contaminated with ergot,” the same statement affirms that until the committee’s work is complete, Egypt will continue to abide by international standards with regard to ergot, which allow for trace contamination of 0.05%. It took an order from the prime minister (literally) to force the bureaucrats to accept UN Food and Agriculture Organization limits of 0.05% — subsequent to which said Agriculture Ministry functionaries said in mid-July that ergot “poses no threat to Egypt’s wheat crop.”