Alerts
Changes to Methyl Bromide Fumigation Methodology
Effective from 14 March 2019Who does this notice affect:
Importers, clients and brokers of commodities that are subject to pre-shipment or on-arrival fumigation.
Background:
The 'Methyl bromide fumigation methodology' sets out the minimum requirements for treatment providers performing methyl bromide fumigations on commodities and/or associated packaging for quarantine and pre-shipment purposes.
The department recently adopted the 'Methyl bromide fumigation methodology and supporting guide' for all relevant onshore approved arrangement holders and offshore stakeholders (AFAS arrangement holders). These documents have replaced the 'AFAS Methyl bromide fumigation standard'.
Further information:
Please see the departments external web page for further information on the Methyl bromide fumigation methodology or contact AFAS.
This Alert applies to the following Cases:
- Baits, lures and fishing flies for aquatic use
- Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock
- Zantedeschia spp. (Calla lily) for use as nursery stock
- Cacti for use as nursery stock
- Hypericum x inodorum for use as nursery stock
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock
- Fresh coconut and coconut meat
- Rudraksha prayer beads
- Natural fibres (and their derivatives) of animal origin
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Preserved and fixed animal and human specimens
- Tea for human consumption
- Gum products
- Psyllium husks for human consumption
- Vanilla beans for human consumption
- Saintpaulia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Ground or whole peppercorns and pepper for human consumption
- Potpourri
- Returning Australian products
- Noodles for human consumption
- Powdered herbs for human consumption
- Incense
- Unidentified plant material requiring treatment
- Archaeological specimens
- Cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa cake and cocoa liquor
- Pelted wheat for human consumption
- Blanched and dried cowpeas for human consumption
- Dried leaf skeletons
- Vacuum sealed nuts for human consumption
- Processed nuts for human consumption
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Dried seaweed for human consumption
- Bee Pollen
- Laboratory animal food
- Gossypium spp. seed for sowing
- Plant material for research purposes
- Daphne spp. and Gladiolus spp. for use as nursery stock
- Empty Giant African snail shells
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Orchids for use as nursery stock
- Dried herb products not for human consumption
- Biodegradable urns
- Kava powder
- Job's tears articles
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Coir peat
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Empty seashells
- Goods made with rawhide
- Guava rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Allium ampeloprasum for use as nursery stock
- Allium porrum for use as nursery stock
- Mentha spp. for use as nursery stock
- Dianthus caryophyllus for use as nursery stock
- Bromeliads for use as nursery stock
- Bamboo products
- Aquatic plants that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for use as nursery stock
- Herbarium specimens
- Ornamental virus, Sudden Oak Death and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Punica spp. for use as nursery stock
- Ananas comosus for use as nursery stock
- Rosa spp. for use as nursery stock
- Fresh okra for human consumption
- Allium sativum for use as nursery stock
- Fresh pineapple for human consumption
- Raw nuts for human consumption
- Agathis spp. (kauri, dammar) for use as nursery stock
- Araucaria spp. for use as nursery stock
- Eustoma, Lisianthius, Bilamista, Lobelia and Urananthus for use as nursery stock
- Dried and whole Ziziphus spp. for human consumption
- Nuts and woody tree seed for sowing
- Pearl barley
- Maize grits for human consumption or processing
- Soybeans (excluding frozen) for human consumption
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Dried dates or doum for human consumption
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Freekeh for human consumption
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum host seeds for human consumption
- Malted cereal products for processing
- Processed grain and seed products for human consumption
- Processed tuber and corm products for human consumption
- Whole dried peas for human consumption
- Chickpeas for human consumption
- Orchid seed for sowing
- Rice for human consumption or processing
- Linseed for human consumption
- Dried apricot kernels
- Groats for processing or human consumption
- Mushrooms for human consumption
- Truffles for human consumption
- Cane and rattan articles
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Carob and cocoa beans and husk for human consumption
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Peanuts for human consumption or processing
- Hops for processing or processed hops
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa
- Horse chestnuts
- Popping corn for human consumption
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Kibbled cereal mix for human consumption
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Dried fruit
- Camellia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Aquatic plants for use as nursery stock
- Aegagropila linnaei (aquatic plants) for use as nursery stock
- Dracaena sanderiana for use as nursery stock
- Rhapis spp. for use as nursery stock
- Daylily rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Ornamental virus hosts and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Xylella fastidiosa and sudden oak death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Tamarind for human consumption
- Sunflower kernel or seed for human consumption
- Shelled pine nuts for human consumption
- Split legumes for human consumption
- Fagopyrum esculentum for human consumption
- Bulgur wheat for human consumption
- Gulong tribute millet for human consumption
- Dried grapes for human consumption
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Thatching grass
- Dried vegetables for human consumption
- Sesame seed for human consumption
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Chestnuts for human consumption
- Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Chinese jujube) for use as nursery stock
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Chrysanthemum x morifolium for use as nursery stock
- Hibiscus spp for use as nursery stock
- Sphagnum moss
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Whole lentils for human consumption
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Banana fibre articles
- Cotton
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Fresh root vegetables for human consumption
- Cooked fruit and vegetables for human consumption
- Fresh Allium spp. for human consumption
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Bulbs to be grown in open quarantine for use as nursery stock
- Peat
- Sudden oak death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Fresh cut flowers and foliage
- Bulbs that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for growth in open quarantine
- Aquaculture feed and aquatic meals
- Dried willow and wicker articles
- Prawns
- Bean seed for human consumption
- Fish viscera for human consumption
- Tyres
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Timber and timber products
- BPL affected timber from New Zealand
- Cocos spp. seed for sowing
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Used shipper owned empty containers imported as a good
- Metal waste and scrap
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance