Originally Posted by
bagold
Just flew from HKG-SFO. During the secondary gate search they took out my nutritional supplement powder from my carryon. Apparently, now we aren't allowed to bring powder onboard.
I can't find this stated on the TSA website. Can someone point me to where this is now banned?
You are allowed powders. As someone mentioned below sometimes these powders are test - but not by ETD. If they are test it is a result of what is seen on the x-ray, not a gate search, and TSA uses something other than ETD to conduct that test.
As I understand your post this was not TSA, correct? I do not know why it wasn't allowed.