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