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