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20 July 2008

Answer to Question #5792 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"

Category: Security Screening — Airport Screening

The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field:

Can the airport x-ray screening devices damage medications? I've heard that there are doctors who will write notes saying their patients' medications cannot be x rayed but I see no reason why the screening process should affect medications.

You are right, there is no reason the screening process would affect the medications. Although the medications would be x rayed, the radiation dose is several orders of magnitude below which we might even consider an effect.

Kelly Classic
Certified Medical Health Physicist

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