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Answer to Question #4862 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Security Screening — Airport Screening The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
Would airport baggage screening equipment (x-ray machine) have any negative effect on fish? If the exposure to airport x-ray screening equipment is minimum or low-dose, then why does the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) ask that animals not be passed through the x-ray machine? NOTE: Our fish were passed through the x-ray screening equipment at the checkpoint and now over half of them have died. No outward appearance of illness was noticed.
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Since the amount of radiation exposure emitted in one of these units would be orders of magnitude less than the radiation exposure needed to cause health or fertility risks in humans then there would be no harm to a fish.
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