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