I received some
education in the forum after having an "oversized medical liquid" confiscated:
- the size of the containers and purpose of the baggie is to limit quantity to less than 500mL (1/2 litre aka half-quart) because that is under the dangerous amount of liquid gel. We yanks determined this...according to the EU news release
Our technical advice is that a total volume of around 500 millilitres (1/2 litre) would still be safe. However, it would be quite impractical to ask screeners to add together the capacities of dozens of small containers: 30 millilitres here, 55 there and so on. This would delay flights for hours and drive screeners mad. So we adopted another solution.
By experiment the Americans have found that, if you pack a number of containers of around 100 millilitres into a plastic bag of one litre capacity, measured their capacities and added them up, the total quantity of liquids was in the range of 500 millilitres. And screeners can easily check such bags if they are transparent. Hence this measure.
- medical liquids have to be separate--i.e., NOT in the baggie--AND they must be declared to a TSO before being screened
- even though legal medical liquids, you may need a print-out of the TSA web page, prescription, letter from your doctor, etc., depending on the knowledge and mood of the screener and/or supervisor
- failure to comply/appease can result in any number of random outcomes
Anyone want to start an airside liquid pharmacy business? @:-)
*read the whole news release
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleases...guiLanguage=en (there was a previous thread on it)