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