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Old May 15, 2019, 1:20 pm
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Originally Posted by chollie
And meats and cheese, apparently, or so we were told yesterday in BZN. All meat and cheese products (in this case, buffalo jerky) have to be hand-inspected (this was TSA Pre). No announcement to remove the products, but all bags containing them were pulled and we were told to remove such items in the future.

I've known cheese could trigger a search for a long time, but the emphasis on all meat products is new. I don't know if they would have flagged us if we'd had a ham-and-cheese sandwich.
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