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
- 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
- Cooked fruit and vegetables for human consumption
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Gossypium spp. seed for sowing
- 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
- Prawns
- Popping corn 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
- 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
- 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
- Chickpeas for human consumption
- Groats for processing or human consumption
- Dried fruit
- Empty seashells
- Cocos spp. seed for sowing
- Sunflower kernel or seed for human consumption
- Hops for processing or processed hops
- Noodles for human consumption
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Dried and whole Ziziphus spp. for human consumption
- Daphne spp. and Gladiolus spp. for use as nursery stock
- Aegagropila linnaei (aquatic plants) for use as nursery stock
- Bulbs to be grown in open quarantine for use as nursery stock
- Split legumes for human consumption
- Tamarind for human consumption
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- 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
- Vacuum sealed nuts for human consumption
- Malted cereal products for processing
- Dried grapes for human consumption
- Fresh okra for human consumption
- Fresh root vegetables for human consumption
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Biodegradable urns
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Empty Giant African snail shells
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Gum products
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock
- Cacti for use as nursery stock
- Saintpaulia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Hypericum x inodorum for use as nursery stock
- Peat
- Aquatic plants for use as nursery stock
- Orchids for use as nursery stock
- Sudden oak death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Agathis spp. (kauri, dammar) 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
- Coir peat
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Returning Australian products
- Laboratory animal food
- Natural fibres (and their derivatives) of animal origin
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Guava rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Ananas comosus for use as nursery stock
- Powdered herbs for human consumption
- Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock
- Dried herb products not for human consumption
- Kava powder
- Fresh cut flowers and foliage
- Ground or whole peppercorns and pepper for human consumption
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Dianthus caryophyllus for use as nursery stock
- Bean seed for human consumption
- Kibbled cereal mix for human consumption
- Pearl barley
- Gulong tribute millet for human consumption
- Dracaena sanderiana for use as nursery stock
- Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Chinese jujube) for use as nursery stock
- Punica spp. for use as nursery stock
- Allium ampeloprasum for use as nursery stock
- Allium porrum 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
- Fish viscera for human consumption
- Bromeliads for use as nursery stock
- Hibiscus spp for use as nursery stock
- Rhapis spp. for use as nursery stock
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Sesame seed for human consumption
- Orchid seed for sowing
- Whole lentils for human consumption
- Soybeans (excluding frozen) for human consumption
- Linseed for human consumption
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum host seeds for human consumption
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Fagopyrum esculentum for human consumption
- Pelted wheat for human consumption
- Bulbs that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for growth in open quarantine
- Whole dried peas for human consumption
- Daylily rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Chrysanthemum x morifolium for use as nursery stock
- Camellia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Mentha spp. for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for use as nursery stock
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Ornamental virus hosts and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Fresh Allium spp. for human consumption
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Bamboo products
- Allium sativum for use as nursery stock
- Coffee for processing or human consumption