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