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
- 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
- Horse chestnuts
- 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
- Potpourri
- Peanuts for human consumption or processing
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Raw jute, jute waste and jute bales for processing
- Psyllium husks for human consumption
- Preserved and fixed animal and human specimens
- Dried and whole Ziziphus spp. for human consumption
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Rudraksha prayer beads
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Fagopyrum esculentum for human consumption
- Chestnuts for human consumption
- Unidentified plant material requiring treatment
- Incense
- Hops for processing or processed hops
- Noodles for human consumption
- Geotextiles for bioremediation
- Bamboo products
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Dried Tillandsia spp.
- Thatching grass
- Timber and timber products
- Cotton
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- Mushrooms for human consumption
- Kava powder
- Timber and Bamboo packaging
- Bean seed for human consumption
- BPL affected timber from New Zealand
- Fencing, screening material and blinds derived from plants
- Returning Australian products
- Bee Pollen
- Stock feed, supplements and ingredients of plant origin
- Dried leaf skeletons
- 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
- 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
- Fresh pineapple for human consumption
- Fresh okra for human consumption
- Fresh Allium spp. for human consumption
- Fresh coconut and coconut meat
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Fresh cut flowers and foliage
- Rice for human consumption or processing
- Dried fruit
- Powdered herbs for human consumption
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Dried herb products not for human consumption
- Banana fibre articles
- Daylily rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Hibiscus 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
- Rosa spp. for use as nursery stock
- Bromeliads for use as nursery stock
- Orchids for use as nursery stock
- Ananas comosus for use as nursery stock
- Guava rust hosts for use as nursery stock
- Cacti for use as nursery stock
- Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock
- Agathis spp. (kauri, dammar) for use as nursery stock
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Plant material for research purposes
- Aquatic plants that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for use as nursery stock
- Chrysanthemum x morifolium for use as nursery stock
- Mentha spp. for use as nursery stock
- Allium ampeloprasum for use as nursery stock
- Aegagropila linnaei (aquatic plants) for use as nursery stock
- Araucaria spp. for use as nursery stock
- Ziziphus jujuba Mill. (Chinese jujube) for use as nursery stock
- Hypericum x inodorum for use as nursery stock
- Eustoma, Lisianthius, Bilamista, Lobelia and Urananthus for use as nursery stock
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Nuts and woody tree seed for sowing
- Punica spp. for use as nursery stock
- Rhapis spp. for use as nursery stock
- Daphne spp. and Gladiolus spp. for use as nursery stock
- Allium sativum for use as nursery stock
- Aquatic plants for use as nursery stock
- Dianthus caryophyllus for use as nursery stock
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock
- Saintpaulia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum and Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Gossypium spp. seed for sowing
- Orchid seed for sowing
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Zantedeschia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Cocos spp. seed for sowing
- 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
- Ground or whole peppercorns and pepper for human consumption
- Fresh root vegetables for human consumption
- Dracaena sanderiana for use as nursery stock
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Peat
- Prawns
- Aquaculture feed and aquatic meals
- Coir peat
- Natural fibres (and their derivatives) of animal origin
- Bulbs that are hosts of Xylella fastidiosa for growth in open quarantine
- Bulbs to be grown in open quarantine for use as nursery stock
- Non-Commodity Cargo Clearance
- Tyres
- Fish viscera for human consumption