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