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