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
- 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
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- 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
- 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
- Laboratory animal food
- 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
- 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
- Archaeological specimens
- Chickpeas for human consumption
- Powdered herbs for human consumption
- Empty Giant African snail shells
- Kava powder
- Gossypium spp. seed for sowing
- Fresh cut flowers and foliage
- Dried leaf skeletons
- Dried and whole Ziziphus spp. for human consumption
- Horse chestnuts
- Kibbled cereal mix for human consumption
- Cotton
- Processed nuts for human consumption
- Pearl barley
- Chestnuts for human consumption
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Split legumes for human consumption
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Tamarind 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
- Ground or whole peppercorns and pepper for human consumption
- Malted cereal products for processing
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Peat
- Raw nuts for human consumption
- Groats for processing or human consumption
- Popping corn for human consumption
- Timber and timber products
- Dried vegetables for human consumption
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Dried herb products not for human consumption
- Noodles for human consumption
- Biodegradable urns
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa
- Fresh Allium spp. for human consumption
- Allium sativum for use as nursery stock
- Aegagropila linnaei (aquatic plants) for use as nursery stock
- Eustoma, Lisianthius, Bilamista, Lobelia and Urananthus for use as nursery stock
- Sudden oak death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Rosa spp. for use as nursery stock
- Zantedeschia spp. (Calla lily) for use as nursery stock
- Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock
- Daphne spp. and Gladiolus spp. for use as nursery stock
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Ornamental virus hosts and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Agathis spp. (kauri, dammar) for use as nursery stock
- Allium ampeloprasum for use as nursery stock
- Chrysanthemum x morifolium for use as nursery stock
- Punica spp. for use as nursery stock
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Dianthus caryophyllus for use as nursery stock
- Blanched and dried cowpeas for human consumption
- Fresh coconut and coconut meat
- Bamboo products
- Prawns
- Aquaculture feed and aquatic meals
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Orchid seed for sowing
- Nuts and woody tree seed for sowing
- Soybeans (excluding frozen) for human consumption
- Sunflower kernel or seed for human consumption
- Bean seed for human consumption
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Fagopyrum esculentum for human consumption
- Fresh pineapple for human consumption
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Processed tuber and corm products for human consumption
- Plant material for research purposes
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Herbarium specimens
- Ananas comosus for use as nursery stock
- Fresh root vegetables for human consumption
- Saintpaulia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Guava rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Ornamental virus, Sudden Oak Death and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Hibiscus spp for use as nursery stock
- Mentha spp. for use as nursery stock
- Bromeliads for use as nursery stock
- Dracaena sanderiana for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for use as nursery stock
- Fresh okra for human consumption
- Xylella fastidiosa and Sudden Oak Death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Daylily rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Cacti for use as nursery stock
- Rhapis spp. for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants for use as nursery stock
- Bulbs to be grown in open quarantine for use as nursery stock
- Orchids for use as nursery stock
- Mushrooms for human consumption
- Camellia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Allium porrum for use as nursery stock
- Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Chinese jujube) for use as nursery stock
- Hypericum x inodorum for use as nursery stock
- Araucaria spp. for use as nursery stock
- Cooked fruit and vegetables for human consumption
- Rice for human consumption or processing
- Bee Pollen
- Dried willow and wicker articles
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Bulbs that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for growth in open quarantine
- Gulong tribute millet for human consumption
- Linseed for human consumption
- Whole lentils for human consumption
- Whole dried peas for human consumption
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum host seeds for human consumption
- Fish viscera for human consumption
- Sesame seed for human consumption
- BPL affected timber from New Zealand