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
- Bulbs that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for growth in open quarantine
- Cooked fruit and vegetables for human consumption
- Cane and rattan articles
- Dried willow and wicker articles
- Sunflower kernel or seed for human consumption
- Herbarium specimens
- Soybeans (excluding frozen) for human consumption
- Linseed 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
- 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
- Split legumes for human consumption
- Bulgur wheat for human consumption
- Carob and cocoa beans and husk for human consumption
- Maize grits for human consumption or processing
- Gulong tribute millet for human consumption
- Metal waste and scrap
- Bulbs to be grown in open quarantine for use as nursery stock
- Mentha spp. for use as nursery stock
- Potpourri
- Aegagropila linnaei (aquatic plants) for use as nursery stock
- Allium ampeloprasum for use as nursery stock
- 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
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Psyllium husks for human consumption
- 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
- Hypericum x inodorum for use as nursery stock
- Araucaria spp. for use as nursery stock
- 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
- Biodegradable urns
- Peat
- Coir peat
- Pelted wheat for human consumption
- Cocoa powder, cocoa butter, cocoa cake and cocoa liquor
- Shelled pine nuts for human consumption
- Freekeh for human consumption
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Kibbled cereal mix for human consumption
- Processed nuts for human consumption
- Blanched and dried cowpeas for human consumption
- Tea for human consumption
- Truffles for human consumption
- 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
- 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
- Dried seaweed for human consumption
- Whole lentils for human consumption
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Fagopyrum esculentum for human consumption
- Punica spp. for use as nursery stock
- Chestnuts for human consumption
- Nuts and woody tree seed for sowing
- Daphne spp. and Gladiolus spp. for use as nursery stock
- Allium sativum for use as nursery stock
- Rhapis spp. for use as nursery stock
- Dianthus caryophyllus for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants for use as nursery stock
- Unidentified plant material requiring treatment
- Incense
- Hops for processing or processed hops
- Noodles for human consumption
- Rosa 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
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Prawns
- Plant material for research purposes
- Bamboo products
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Thatching grass
- Timber and timber products
- Cotton
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Banana fibre articles
- Orchid seed for sowing
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Mushrooms for human consumption
- Natural fibres (and their derivatives) of animal origin
- Kava powder
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Orchids for use as nursery stock
- Fish viscera for human consumption
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Bean seed for human consumption
- Gossypium spp. seed for sowing
- Zantedeschia spp. for use as nursery stock
- BPL affected timber from New Zealand
- Rice for human consumption or processing
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance
- Cocos spp. seed for sowing
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Sudden oak death hosts for use as nursery stock
- 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
- Camellia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Returning Australian products
- Bee Pollen
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Guava rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Dried leaf skeletons
- Cacti for use as nursery stock
- Aquaculture feed and aquatic meals
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Raw nuts for human consumption
- Sesame seed for human consumption
- Dried dates or doum for human consumption
- Ground or whole peppercorns and pepper for human consumption
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Vacuum sealed nuts for human consumption
- Malted cereal products for processing
- Dried vegetables for human consumption
- Dried grapes for human consumption
- Dried fruit
- Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock
- Agathis spp. (kauri, dammar) for use as nursery stock
- Fresh pineapple for human consumption
- Fresh root vegetables for human consumption
- Fresh okra for human consumption
- Fresh Allium spp. for human consumption
- Fresh coconut and coconut meat
- Powdered herbs for human consumption
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Dried herb products not for human consumption
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Fresh cut flowers and foliage