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