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
- 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
- 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
- Sphagnum moss
- Potpourri
- 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
- Psyllium husks for human consumption
- Plant fibre products and seed handicrafts
- Horse chestnuts
- Popping corn for human consumption
- Empty Giant African snail shells
- Baits, lures, attractants and poisons for agricultural or domestic use
- Pelted wheat for human consumption
- Raw and sun dried tobacco
- Processed nuts for human consumption
- Dried leaf skeletons
- Nicotiana spp. seed for sowing
- Bee Pollen
- Coir peat
- Chestnuts for human consumption
- Bamboo products
- Incense
- 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
- Blanched and dried cowpeas for human consumption
- Methyl bromide sensitive nursery stock
- Araucaria 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
- 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
- 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
- Fresh coconut and coconut meat
- Zantedeschia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Medium risk plants for use as nursery stock
- Empty seashells
- Xylella fastidiosa and Sudden Oak Death hosts for use as nursery stock
- Human therapeutics and medicines
- BPL affected timber from New Zealand
- Saintpaulia spp. for use as nursery stock
- Articles stuffed with dried herbs or seed
- Cotton
- Plant material for research purposes
- Biodegradable plant pots
- Biodegradable urns
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Metal waste and scrap
- Tyres
- Xylella fastidiosa hosts for use as nursery stock
- Timber and timber products
- Logs, log cabins and oversize timber
- Processed tuber and corm products for human consumption
- Dried herbs for human consumption
- Bulgur wheat for human consumption
- Regulated vegetable crop seeds for human consumption
- Gulong tribute millet for human consumption
- Whole lentils for human consumption
- Papaver somniferum seed for human consumption
- Soybeans (excluding frozen) for human consumption
- Split legumes for human consumption
- Malted cereal products for processing
- Whole dried peas for human consumption
- Sesame seed for human consumption
- Coffee for processing or human consumption
- Processed grain and seed products for human consumption
- Dried vegetables for human consumption
- Dried grapes for human consumption
- Hemp seed and hemp products
- Rice for human consumption or processing
- Medicago spp. seed for sowing
- Peanuts for human consumption or processing
- Maize grits for human consumption or processing
- Carob and cocoa beans and husk for human consumption
- Sunflower kernel or seed for human consumption
- Chickpeas for human consumption
- Animal trophies, articles and handicraft items
- Rosa spp. for use as nursery stock
- Pearl barley
- Dried dates or doum for human consumption
- Dried and whole Ziziphus spp. for human consumption
- Fagopyrum esculentum for human consumption
- Orchid seed for sowing
- Groats for processing or human consumption
- Mushrooms for human consumption
- Shelled pine nuts for human consumption
- Freekeh for human consumption
- Raw nuts for human consumption
- Dried apricot kernels
- Truffles for human consumption
- Bean seed for human consumption
- Annona spp. seed for sowing
- Linseed for human consumption
- Natural fibres (and their derivatives) of animal origin
- Raw seed for human consumption
- Straw, cereal straw articles and products
- Thatching grass
- Hibiscus spp for use as nursery stock
- Nuts and woody tree seed for sowing
- Laboratory animal food
- Stock feed, stock feed ingredients and stock feed additives (not of plant origin)
- Cocos spp. seed for sowing
- Daphne spp. and Gladiolus spp. for use as nursery stock
- Tamarind for human consumption
- Dried fruit