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