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