TSA food?

[kitkat4622]

Will tsa make me toss the snacks I have in my bag from Goofys candy store. We have tsa pre check although I am sure that does not matter. The snacks are in a ziploc bag

 

[FCDub]

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/whatcanibring/food

 

[PrincesCJM]

When I flew out of MCO last Friday, in the non-pre-check line, we did not have to remove anything. I was prepared with my snacks in a bag for them to be scanned separately but didn't need to

 

[OKW Lover]

TSA is looking for weapons. They aren't health inspectors. Bringing food (as long as its solid) is not an issue for TSA.

 

[MikeOhio]

TSA is looking for weapons. They aren't health inspectors. Bringing food (as long as its solid) is not an issue for TSA.

In the fall tsa at Mco was actively searching food and candy. There have been reports of Isis hiding explosives in food so it’s definitely something they care about.

 

[scrapquitler]

Will tsa make me toss the snacks I have in my bag from Goofys candy store. We have tsa pre check although I am sure that does not matter. The snacks are in a ziploc bag

Two weeks ago they were asking people to take snacks out of their carry-on and put them in one of the bins. They aren't going to take them, they are just going to look at them (and maybe swab the packages).

You will make things easier for yourself if you throw them in a ziploc bag so its easier to take them out of your carry-on if they ask you to that.

 

[lost*in*cyberspace]

In the fall tsa at Mco was actively searching food and candy. There have been reports of Isis hiding explosives in food so it’s definitely something they care about.

What nonsense! TSA only cares about liquids. Stop posting misinformation.

 

[Sharene0724]

TSA at MCO made me take a gallon size ziplock bag full of various snacks for my 2 year old out of my backpack and have it scanned separate in a bin from my other carry on items in April when we flew home. It was not a big deal, it was just scanned and sent through like all of my other carry on items. They did not ask us to throw anything away or swab anything.

 

[Capang]

What nonsense! TSA only cares about liquids. Stop posting misinformation.

TSA WAS inspecting food this fall. People coming back from MNSSHP had to have ALL their candy removed. Precheck not so much. The food inspections part was very much true and very much happened this fall for whatever reason.

 

[scrapquitler]

TSA at MCO made me take a gallon size ziplock bag full of various snacks for my 2 year old out of my backpack and have it scanned separate in a bin from my other carry on items in April when we flew home. It was not a big deal, it was just scanned and sent through like all of my other carry on items. They did not ask us to throw anything away or swab anything.

This is what I saw two weeks ago, too. In didn't see them swab anything, but they were telling people that they might.

 

[MikeOhio]

What nonsense! TSA only cares about liquids. Stop posting misinformation.

As multiple people have noted you are simply wrong. Now, no one has said food is banned like liquids. But tsa certainly cares about food and sometimes searches it separately.

 

[bumbershoot]

There have been reports of Isis hiding explosives in food so it’s definitely something they care about.

This is what you said.

As multiple people have noted you are simply wrong.

The other poster said they don’t care about food.

IMO that’s correct. They don’t care abut food. They care about explosives.

(this was about snacks and electronics)

“There is no specific threat associated with these items that requires them to be screened separately, and the change is not associated with the ban on laptops and other large electronics on flights originating from some Middle East airports; rather, the move is intended to increase efficiency. The TSA has found that everyday items can appear similar to explosives on an X-ray machine — which slows down lines because officers must manually inspect a large number of bags.”

Doesn’t seem to indicate that anyone was hiding anything.

 

[Alesia]

What nonsense! TSA only cares about liquids. Stop posting misinformation.

It's not misinformation.

It was causing huge backups last fall through the early winter and was the reason that DME was picking people up an hour earlier

 

[ncc1701]

It's not misinformation.

It was causing huge backups last fall through the early winter and was the reason that DME was picking people up an hour earlier

The reports of them checking food happened just before our last trip. We were the 1st day of the 4 hour pickup for domestic flights. We had Precheck plus no food so we had no issues.Maybe they were getting bad scans from the Halloween candy.

 

[kaytieeldr]

TSA is looking for weapons. They aren't health inspectors. Bringing food (as long as its solid) is not an issue for TSA.

And as long as it's not an apple given to you by your domestic carrier on your return from another country.

But that's a story for another time...

 

[AquamarineSteph]

According to multiple sources, TSA has said at some airports that food must come out of the carry on bags, just like liquids. To date, PreCheck lines have been exempt from this requirement at those airports, but even then there is always the possibility of a random security screening.

https://www.today.com/food/tsa-screening-may-now-involve-removing-snacks-carry-ons-t126122

http://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/tsa-remove-food-from-bag-security-check

https://www.azcentral.com/story/tra...food-carryon-bags-during-screening/511747002/

Any passenger may get lucky and not have to remove their snacks, but I'd be prepared to remove anything edible. I'd also make it easy on myself by putting edibles into a separate Ziploc bag, much the same way the 3-1-1 liquid bag can be removed for screening.

 

[OKW Lover]

Interesting comments above, but please recall that the OP specifically asked if TSA would make them toss the food.

 

[AquamarineSteph]

Interesting comments above, but please recall that the OP specifically asked if TSA would make them toss the food.

Only the TSA can answer that question, but generally speaking many foods are fine. The TSA website would be the best source of information for that question.

 

[monorailsilver]

We just flew in the past 2 weeks...ahh...last Sunday I was in the sun on Sanibel....

Anyways, on our way down we flew out I’d Hartford. I had chicken nuggets in a metal container for my son, my girls had pizza wrapped in foil and my dh, myself and my mother had the other half of our wrap sandwich we got, wrapped in foil. I did not have to take it out in Hartford. I did take out my apples and oranges and the TSA lady said “apples and oranges coming thru.” I had an epipen in a non liquid gallon bag and I showed the TSA lady and she said not to worry about that.

On the way home, Ft. Myers, get to TSA “take out all your food”, basically we pack our carry on in zip lock bags. My son was the only one with Nathan’s so he took that out. We had some small snacks and that came out. I took out all my toiletries (non liquid), sharks teeth/shell bags, etc...basically my carry on was empty! My DHs bag got flagged for thr insane amount of change there but that was in. Years past in Ft. Myers we have been flagged for sand, powder, sand, coconut (TSA precheck but my other 2 kids didn’t have that and went thru the regular line and didn’t get that flagged), sand, sand...

Just be prepared, lay it with nothing else on top of it and put it in a big bag.

It sort of pisses me off since the TSA website doesn’t say to remove all food.

 

[maxiesmom]

What nonsense! TSA only cares about liquids. Stop posting misinformation.

It is nonsense! We experienced the food check last year. My sister had a couple of apples in a bag. They took them out and threw them in a bin, and then checked them over.

I had granola bars in my carry on that had to come out to be looked over too.