Co-publication

Guide to Fumigation Under Gas-Proof Sheets

Date released
08 March 2004
Publication Code
CoP006
Authors

J.E van Someren Graver

Overview

This fumigation guide has been written to tell, and show, users how to do fumigations with the fumigants phosphine and methyl bromide using gas-proof sheets to treat: bag-stacks of grain and other commodities; loaded freight containers; other products or cargoes, such as timber and machinery that can be enclosed under gas-proof fumigation sheets. The information is presented here is practical. There are few references to the scientific principles that support good an effective fumigation.