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