Originally Posted by KSinNYC
Two weeks ago I was flying from Terminal 9 at JFK. In my carryon I had appx. 35 rolls of high speed film and a sealed box of Ilford photo paper. I asked that everything be swabbed and checked by hand. The screeners did not look very happy. A supervisor came over and said that I had to open the photo paper box (which of course exposes the paper and makes it useless). He said either I could open the box or he could put it through the x-ray machine. He refused to swab it.
TSA folks:
1. What is the authorized procedure for photo paper? Could you please show a link or quote some specific section of the TSA manual, so I can refer to it in the future if this happens again?
2. What does the x-ray machine do to photo paper?
3. Why could this box not be swabbed?
Thank you.
Other folks:
Has this ever happened to you? Where? What did you do about it?
boxes have to be either xrayed or opened, If neither is possible, the item doesnt fly. You could check the bag but it might get xrayed by a big ctx, since the iso asa of photopaper is unknown, xray may ruin it.