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