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'Secret' LAGs' scanner tests
By Doug Newhouse, 12 March 2009
According to a report in The Times newspaper today, the UK Government has been backing secret tests at laboratories in Germany on screening technology which may finally see the end of the current restrictions on LAGs in hand luggage.
According to the report, the tests are centred around the scanners’ abilities to efficiently and accurately detect the presence of hydrogen peroxide (found in shampoo) and other liquids that can be used to make liquid bombs.
The report claims that two tonnes of alcohol a month are still being confiscated at Heathrow Airport and The Times quotes a Whitehall source today as saying that the first of these new machines could be in place as earlier as this autumn.
According to the report, the new machines will cost in excess of £100,000 ($137,632) each and will initially be road tested at BAA airports in the UK.
If they prove to be effective then they will be rolled out to other airports, but in the current economic climate - and considering the cost of each unit - it may still be some time before they are internationally available.
Because of testing, cost and other factors, European Travel Retail Council President Frank O’Connell said at this year’s ETRC Forum that he believes that the implementation of such new technology on any great scale could still be as long as 18 months away.
By Doug Newhouse, 12 March 2009
According to a report in The Times newspaper today, the UK Government has been backing secret tests at laboratories in Germany on screening technology which may finally see the end of the current restrictions on LAGs in hand luggage.
According to the report, the tests are centred around the scanners’ abilities to efficiently and accurately detect the presence of hydrogen peroxide (found in shampoo) and other liquids that can be used to make liquid bombs.
The report claims that two tonnes of alcohol a month are still being confiscated at Heathrow Airport and The Times quotes a Whitehall source today as saying that the first of these new machines could be in place as earlier as this autumn.
According to the report, the new machines will cost in excess of £100,000 ($137,632) each and will initially be road tested at BAA airports in the UK.
If they prove to be effective then they will be rolled out to other airports, but in the current economic climate - and considering the cost of each unit - it may still be some time before they are internationally available.
Because of testing, cost and other factors, European Travel Retail Council President Frank O’Connell said at this year’s ETRC Forum that he believes that the implementation of such new technology on any great scale could still be as long as 18 months away.
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