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