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