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