Animal consumption, animal cosmetic use and environmental purposes

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, May 2023

This page outlines the information that must be included with an application to import the following products:

1. Goods for Animal consumption (including stockfeed, petfood, aquaculture feed)
2. Bulk ingredients for use in the manufacture of cosmetics for animal use
3. Animal baits/attractants (including rodent baits, insect baits)
4. Bioremediation agents (including waste water treatments, cleaning products)
5. Herbicides, insecticides and pesticides
6. Goods for environmental and/or industrial use (including dairy, gelatine and tallow-based goods)
7. Fertilisers (containing animal and/or microbial derived ingredients)

Production questionnaire: Animal consumption, animal cosmetic use or environmental purposes

The Animal consumption, animal cosmetic use and environmental purposes production questionnaire must be completed by the manufacturer and submitted with all applications for permit to bring these goods into Australia. Manufacturers must provide information relating to the composition, manufacturing and packaging of the product, as well as quality control measures in place at the manufacturing facility.

Production questionnaire: Third-party facilities (packing, handling and/or storage of goods)

The third-party facility questionnaire must be completed by the third-party facility where the goods are stored, handled or further processed. The questionnaire must be submitted with applications for permit to bring these goods into Australia. Manufacturers must provide information relating to the packaging of the product, as well as quality control measures in place at the facility. If the facility conduct additional manufacturing steps (e.g. Addition of materials, further refining) this questionnaire is not suitable, and the manufacturer must complete the Animal consumption and environmental purposes production questionnaire.

Manufacturers can also attach additional documents containing tables or flow charts. If additional documents are provided, they must meet the following criteria:

1. From the manufacturer
2. Specifying the product name(s)
3. On manufacturer’s letterhead (including company address and country)
4. Signed by a senior company employee from the site of manufacture whose name, title and contact details also appear
5. Dated within the last 6 months, free from erasures and uncertified alterations (all alterations must be initialled by the senior company employee responsible for signing the declaration)
6. Written in English.

Manufacturers may consider certain information commercially sensitive. Where this is the case, importers can still lodge their import permit application and the manufacturer can provide commercially sensitive information directly to the department via email (imports@aff.gov.au) referencing the import permit application number. All information made available to the department remains strictly commercial-in-confidence and is protected against unauthorised disclosure by the department to any other party under Australian federal law.