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Old Jul 5, 2012, 8:16 am
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Originally Posted by WillCAD

I'm certain that this is supposed to be explosives testing. But, according to those whith more chemistry knowledge than me, there is no chemical test for explosives or the chemicals that make up explosives, which doesn't require the test articles to come into physical contact with the tested material. In other words, the Magic Strips (TM) they're currently waving over beverages to "test" are absolutely useless for that purpose.

This is one screening procedure I will not comply with. I'll dump my drink, or chug it, or whatever, but nobody is going to wave some kind of chemical test strip over something I'm about to ingest, or worse, dip the strip into it.
It has to be far more likely that the TSO does something to endanger you via your beverage than for the Coca Cola Company to alter your drink.

Last edited by aztimm; Jul 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm Reason: merged thread cleanup
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