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