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