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:
- 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
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Sunflower kernel or seed for human consumption
- Tyres
- Thatching grass
- Linseed for human consumption
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Whole lentils for human consumption
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum host seeds for human consumption
- Chickpeas for human consumption
- Soybeans (excluding frozen) for human consumption
- Metal waste and scrap
- Gulong tribute millet for human consumption
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock
- Carob and cocoa beans and husk for human consumption
- Chestnuts for human consumption
- Ornamental virus, Sudden Oak Death and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Hibiscus spp 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
- 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
- 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
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Sudden oak death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Plant material for research purposes
- Orchids for use as nursery stock
- Potpourri
- Sphagnum moss
- 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
- Processed grain and seed products for human consumption
- Araucaria spp. for use as nursery stock
- 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
- Aegagropila linnaei (aquatic plants) for use as nursery stock
- Cacti for use as nursery stock
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Gum products
- 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
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Incense
- Fresh pineapple for human consumption
- Blanched and dried cowpeas for human consumption
- 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
- Maize grits for human consumption or processing
- Kava powder
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Dried apricot kernels
- Vanilla beans for human consumption
- Fresh okra for human consumption
- Zantedeschia spp. (Calla lily) for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants 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
- Unidentified plant material requiring treatment
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Job's tears articles
- Used shipper owned empty containers imported as a good
- Dried leaf skeletons
- Powdered herbs for human consumption
- Mushrooms 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
- Popping corn for human consumption
- Coir peat
- Tea for human consumption
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Laboratory animal food
- Noodles for human consumption
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Returning Australian products
- Bee Pollen
- Empty Giant African snail shells
- Baits, lures and fishing flies for aquatic use
- Prawns
- Preserved and fixed animal and human specimens
- Goods made with rawhide
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Archaeological specimens
- Empty seashells
- Fish viscera for human consumption
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Horse chestnuts
- Peat
- Eustoma, Lisianthius, Bilamista, Lobelia and Urananthus for use as nursery stock
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Bean seed for human consumption
- Fresh root vegetables for human consumption
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Ground or whole peppercorns and pepper for human consumption
- Raw nuts for human consumption
- Dried herb products not for human consumption
- Sesame seed for human consumption
- Dried dates or doum for human consumption
- Dried fruit
- Vacuum sealed nuts for human consumption
- Dried vegetables for human consumption
- Malted cereal products for processing
- Dried grapes for human consumption
- Fresh coconut and coconut meat
- Mentha spp. for use as nursery stock
- Chrysanthemum x morifolium for use as nursery stock
- Ananas comosus for use as nursery stock
- Ornamental virus hosts and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Daylily rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Rhapis spp. for use as nursery stock
- Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Chinese jujube) for use as nursery stock
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Bromeliads for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for use as nursery stock
- Aquaculture feed and aquatic meals
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Cooked fruit and vegetables for human consumption
- Natural fibres (and their derivatives) of animal origin
- Allium sativum for use as nursery stock
- Dracaena sanderiana for use as nursery stock
- Allium ampeloprasum for use as nursery stock
- Dianthus caryophyllus for use as nursery stock
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa
- Punica spp. for use as nursery stock
- Allium porrum for use as nursery stock
- Bulbs that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for growth in open quarantine
- Fresh cut flowers and foliage
- Human therapeutics and medicines