diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 5e1316e..8079e7e 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Reexport = "189a3867-3050-52da-a836-e630ba90ab69"
 [compat]
 AbstractFFTs = "0.5"
 Conda = "1"
+FFTW_jll = "3.3"
 Reexport = "0.2"
 julia = "1.3"
 
diff --git a/src/FFTW.jl b/src/FFTW.jl
index afd5d92..e30b8d8 100644
--- a/src/FFTW.jl
+++ b/src/FFTW.jl
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ module FFTW
 using LinearAlgebra, Reexport
 import Libdl
 @reexport using AbstractFFTs
+using Base.Threads
 
 import AbstractFFTs: Plan, ScaledPlan,
                      fft, ifft, bfft, fft!, ifft!, bfft!,
@@ -26,7 +27,7 @@ end
 const fftw_vendor = occursin("libmkl_rt", libfftw3) ? :mkl : :fftw
 
 # Use Julia partr threading backend if present
-@static if fftw_vendor == :fftw && isdefined(Threads, Symbol("@spawn"))
+@static if fftw_vendor == :fftw
     # callback function that FFTW uses to launch `num` parallel
     # tasks (FFTW/fftw3#175):
     function spawnloop(f::Ptr{Cvoid}, fdata::Ptr{Cvoid}, elsize::Csize_t, num::Cint, callback_data::Ptr{Cvoid})
@@ -49,19 +50,13 @@ function __init__()
     if stat == 0 || statf == 0
         error("could not initialize FFTW threads")
     end
-    @static if fftw_vendor == :fftw
-        if Threads.nthreads() > 1 # number of Julia threads is set when Julia is launched
-            ccall((:fftw_make_planner_thread_safe,  libfftw3),  Cvoid, ())
-            ccall((:fftwf_make_planner_thread_safe, libfftw3f), Cvoid, ())
-        end
-        @static if isdefined(Threads, Symbol("@spawn"))
-            if Threads.nthreads() > 1 # partr will give us our threads
-                cspawnloop = @cfunction(spawnloop, Cvoid, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Csize_t, Cint, Ptr{Cvoid}))
-                ccall((:fftw_threads_set_callback,  libfftw3),  Cvoid, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}), cspawnloop, C_NULL)
-                ccall((:fftwf_threads_set_callback, libfftw3f), Cvoid, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}), cspawnloop, C_NULL)
-                set_num_threads(Threads.nthreads() * 4) # spawn more tasks than threads to help load-balancing
-            end
-        end
+    @static if fftw_vendor == :fftw && nthreads() > 1
+        ccall((:fftw_make_planner_thread_safe,  libfftw3),  Cvoid, ())
+        ccall((:fftwf_make_planner_thread_safe, libfftw3f), Cvoid, ())
+        cspawnloop = @cfunction(spawnloop, Cvoid, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}, Csize_t, Cint, Ptr{Cvoid}))
+        ccall((:fftw_threads_set_callback,  libfftw3),  Cvoid, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}), cspawnloop, C_NULL)
+        ccall((:fftwf_threads_set_callback, libfftw3f), Cvoid, (Ptr{Cvoid}, Ptr{Cvoid}), cspawnloop, C_NULL)
+        set_num_threads(nthreads() * 4) # spawn more tasks than threads to help load-balancing
     end
 end