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Answer to Question #6115 Submitted to "Ask the Experts"Category: Security Screening The following question was answered by an expert in the appropriate field: Q
If I place my breakfast, lunch, snacks, and water into the
x-ray screening machine at work, is this safe when I will need to do
this five times a week, times 52 weeks a year, for the next 25 years?
What long-term effects could this have? A
Thank you for your question. Sending food items through a screening
machine, whether at the airport or in your workplace, will not do
anything to the food and the food will not contain radioactivity after
it passes through the x rays. There are no short-term or long-term
effects on the food or for you.
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