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