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