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