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