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Aug 6, 2007 | 11:28 pm

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Join Date: Jun 2007

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Originally Posted by Superguy

I don't buy that. Other TSO's have said those things can be configured to detect just about anything out there ... even drugs.

But here's another thing, x-rays don't detect explosives either, yet they're still used for explosives detection. By TSA's logic, the puffers should be used to detect TATP then if what you say is true.

Here's a good place to read about TATP and why it can't be detected by standard mass spectrometry techniques (i.e., ETP & ETD):

http://www.tfot.info/articles.php?itemId=35/

Also you will see a device that might be the thing TurboProf saw used at FRA.

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