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