<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by The Unknown Screener:
No, the TSA does get it, you just have a huge chip on your shoulder and admit that you are looking for a fight. The actual number of false positives is well under 3%. I seldom had a positive as we would sometimes go 1-2 days without one. If it was 30% as you claim we would have bags stacked to the ceiling all the time waiting for us to resolve the alarm as it sometimes took 10-15 minutes to do so.
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TSA Issues Tips For Checked Bags
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
"Slepian said some machines falsely identify up to 35 percent of bags as having explosives and therefore may need to be opened and searched by hand. "Certain food products -- certainly peanut butters and jellies and chocolate bars -- have the same density as plastic explosives," he said."
It appears your right my figures WERE off. They were too low.....