Egypt has backtracked on a government pledge to apply international standards on the fungus ergot found in wheat imports, recently rejecting two more shipments. Last time around, suppliers called the zero tolerance ergot standards by Egypt impossible to meet. Traders had boycotted tenders by Egypt to purchase wheat after the first round of rejections. The country later assured suppliers they would follow a 0.05 percent tolerance policy, a widely applied international standard. However, recently Egypt rejected 30,000 metric tons of Polish wheat and another 10,000 metric tons of Canadian wheat since April, according to Reuters. Those rejections come despite their levels of ergot falling below 0.05 percent. The Polish wheat, rejected twice since April, contained just 0.02 percent of ergot.