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Old Mar 11, 2014 | 4:48 am
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SwissCircle
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Originally Posted by vbroucek
To which you voluntarily agreed by buying the ticket... Just be happy you flew to FRA, if you were flying to Australia, they would actually confiscate and destroy both items and finally charge you hefty fine for not declaring prohibited goods - any food items (and many other things) are prohibited to be brought to Australia.
Yes these items could be confiscated.
A hefty fine would only apply if he had serious amounts of food with him. He might get of with a stern warning and at most a fine of AUD 200.

Also you can bring food, you have to declare it and it has to be "clean".
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