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