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