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